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Friendly reminder that the Sun & Moon — a star 93 million miles away and hunk of rock 238 thousand miles away — appear essentially the exact same size & shape in our sky (with one being able to virtually perfectly eclipse the other) and you’re not allowed to ponder the possibility of that being anything but a coincidence.
That’s not coincidence….. you tell how big a thing is by making a triangularation with your two eyes. The distance to the sun and moon requires a bigger base of the triangle then the distance between your two eyes.
Things look bigger or smaller depending on distance (which is why birds move their side fixed (and thise monocular) eye nearer and further back and fourth , when judging distance to see how much the apparent size changes)
Try wearing an eye patch for a day and you will see how apparent size changes wiyh distance…..thus a bigger thing can appear smaller if far away.
If you want to measure BIG distances you need a wider base, you can look up old Optical range finders and how they work for examples in action- but I have a golf monocular that has a graduated line that tells you how far away the flag over the hole is based on how big it looks in comparison to the vertical line.
Also TBH I don’t think the sun and moon always look the same size.
Thank you James for all your diligent work and your clarity of presentation. You set the standard very high for your field. (Not sarcastic)
I think you have oppositional disorder. Only half joking… But the ‘scientific consensus,’ and therefore my AI, agrees with you. But I don’t.
The full solar eclipses are the proof of the apparent size ‘coincidence.’ Depending on the time of year, they sizes may vary a teeny bit, but it is a remarkable alignment nonetheless (within 0.2 percent). I agree this leads people with mushy minds to leap to unsupported detailed mystical reasons, but it is still worth pondering. It is something that produces awe in me, though I refrain from giving a detailed reason for it. Those who cannot entertain anything but coincidence also have mushy minds, due to their allegiance to a different religion. Call that one science or scientism.
To know that you don’t know is essential to growth.
Any career advice from the people? Mid 30s Navy vet and Arabic linguist searching the globe. May return to school and lookong at healthcare/tech. Would prefer to work outside the main program and have explored farmhand opportunites. The Amish may have a spot for my chariot
Larmex8
“… May return to school and lookong at healthcare/tech…”
You can earn good money in that, but you will probably need to get your safe and effective vax shots whenever they roll out a new mandate…… blood draw techs (phlebotomist??) have a pretty easy course from what I heard and the pay is “ok” vs the cost of schooling.
Personally i stay away from medical places as much as I can, but Cu.h.j can advise you on nursing stuff if you ask, I expect.
When I went to nursing school, they did advise certain vaccines, but I’m not sure if it was mandated or that a person couldn’t invoke their right to religious exemption. At the time, I believed in vaccines and was more trusting of “the science.” Or I figured if they didn’t help, wouldn’t hurt.
I didn’t dig into the research on vaccines because I had never had a noticeable side effect. But that changed after I had a flu shot in 2014 when I noticed some persistent swelling in my lymph nodes. I brushed it off for for a couple more years but started refusing the flu shot in 2017. There was an option to wear a mask instead.
I haven’t had a flu shot or any additional vaccines since 2017. I was also granted a religious exemption for the Covid shot. And presently some hospitals have removed that requirement because of political pressure.
However, going to school for medicine, nursing or any other health care field may have more stringent requirements (something a person should research prior to applying to any program).
That’s something I’m having to research now for NP programs since I’m considering going back to school, how easy it is to get exemptions for some vaccines.
Unfortunately I’ve had all the basic jabs when I was a child. Information about the harms were less well known when we were kids.
Seems like more schools want proof of vaccination though the covid requirements are rare
You can make good money in health care but should research the requirements for vaccines in any program you apply to. Nursing can pay very well but only in certain states like California. You can make 6 figures in California with free benefits. And also some employers will give you a religious exemption for vaccines. School is a different matter and you’d have to research if it’s harder to get them in some programs.
If you wanted to make good money as a nurse in states outside of California, you’ll need to pursue travel nursing after you have at least 2 years in a specialty.
If you went into ICU as a nurse you could use your experience to train as a CRNA and they make excellent money across the country. They can make more than a primary care MD.
I had considered going to med school but the cost and training length and the delay on in making good money dissuaded me from pursuing it. Plus you have to work crazy hours during residency and then even as an MD the hours are insane. 24 hour shifts aren’t my cup of tea.
Nursing is a tough job though, IMO. You’ll work hard for the money.
If I had to do it again, I’d probably pursue vet school or a non medical field like law or finance to be honest.
You can also make good money in tech too, but to make the big bucks you’ll also need to pursue a physical science undergraduate degree. It might be worth looking into it if you find that field interesting.
Phlebotomy like Duck mentioned can provide okay money but it’s kind of boring IMO. Or you could pursue respiratory therapy, MRI technologist that pay better and IMO aren’t boring.
I’d do research if I was starting out, making sure the opportunity cost is not greater than earning potential. Plus there’s the matter of spending your time doing things you actually enjoy or can put up with.
Nursing is full of good opportunities and have looked into imaging and respiratory therapy programs
Oh about tech, like programming. To make good money you’ll need to pursue specialized training after school and be talented at it, not just the undergraduate education. I have a friend who works in Kernel development and makes outstanding money and is very talented. He has a degree in astrophysics and a bachelors only but is gifted with computers.
If you’re not really gifted with that kind of thing, you’d probably need at least a masters degree and consider the possible economic limitations of that field now. People with more experience being preferred.
Any field is like that though. Your first job will probably suck and not pay very well and you’ll need to get experience and be competitive to get the better jobs.
My husband works in tech with a bachelors degree and had to work very hard to get the good jobs.
Also, now AI is able to write code, some “lower level” tech professionals may not be “required” nowadays.
Work outside.
Create.
Be of service.
Question I have is, what drives you? Are you interested in the money, or fulfillment? My husband and I quit ‘normal’ life 2 months ago and bought some land in Kenya. Our mud house is almost complete and when we move in on Sunday, we will be working on the land. Our plan is to create a permaculture farm (minus the climate change bs). Yes, we need some money, but we plan on being mainly self-sufficient once the initial expenses are over. I never regretted anything less than giving up on my comfy office job and doing my own thing.
You mentioned farming, so I thought I drop that in here. Money is helpful, but you can’t eat money. In the long term, I suspect that having food at your front door is more useful. Unless of course they get to us first with their poisoning the air, ground, and water.
Very true about being able to grow ones own food and be more self sufficient. But developing vacant land is expensive, even can cost over 100K depending on the prices of materials and contractors (unless a person can do their own building and I can’t).
Had I not had the money to move and buy land and develop it, I’d be stuck living in a city.
I think it’s important for people who value freedom to be able to make as much money as they can. And if someone is paying for education (and it’s expensive) should study a field that will make them money. Having other hobbies and interests are things that can be pursued in parallel to having a well paid job.
I’ve been lucky that working in health care has not been entirely bad and I have actually enjoyed it a lot of the time even with all the bs have been able to avoid a lot of the vaccines and other downsides.
without making assumptions, and bearing in mind that any type of surrogate endpoint relied upon must first be proven to be a reliable “surrogate”, how can you measure and be certain of the distance and size of these objects?
The main point is not the actual size of these celestial objects, it is the fact that their apparent size to us, here on Earth, at this century, is a fantastic ‘coincidence.’
Still, their size and distance are now verified, especially if you believe in the success of Solar System probes launched from Earth.
How we derived these measurements is fascinating, and also awe inspiring. Most of it was done with very crude instruments and no calculators, just human genius.
From Terence Tao, the preeminent mathematician of our generation. This is not his research, but his interest in this story indicates the reverence he has for the genius of our predecessors.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdOXS_9_P4U&t=63s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFMaT9oRbs4
How dare you!?! We have names we will call you, if you persist in raising that point without bowing down to our coincidence theory. EVERYTHING that we have not already explained is clearly coincidence. Please look no further.
(Continuing with the sarcasm that James treated us to in his written intro). The Sun is a nuclear bomb, and only our ‘science’ and technology can save us. Also we love statistical probabilities, especially when we can make money with climate scams, but not so much when it comes to the apparent size of the the sun and moon. That just fits nicely into our coincidence theory. We will tell you what happened a thousandth of a second after the fictional Big Bang, and a hundred years from now for sea levels. But don’t ask us to accurately predict the weather an hour from now…
Trust the Science (again)
They tell you what happened a zillionth of a second after the big bang, and what happened a gagillionth of a second later, billions of years ago. But now they say they have been off by 13 billion years.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/07/14/universe-may-older-than-thought-study-shows/70411343007/
PS Red Shift cosmology, which is the central ‘evidence’ for all this baloney is itself flawed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnZJlv-Buhk&t=443s
https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/cosmologist-halton-arp-19272013/
To be honest I’m more confused about your profile name. Do animals not decompose when they die? I’ve always thought all organic material was food to something otherwise the cycle of life would not be possible. Just seems self evident to me. Really not trying to be sarcastic or provoking I just honestly don’t understand it, if it was meant to be taken seriously.
Reading tip: If the one literal interpretation for a word, or arrangement of words, that pops into your head doesn’t make sense to you, instead of giving up, allow your brain to run the numbers and produce some probable alternate meanings/references for you. Human brains are pretty good at doing this automatically if you let them.
Internet tip: Many, many, many things on the Internet require some degree of deciphering / probability-assessment. Memes, cartoons, jokes, quotes, poems, books, movies, blogs, vlogs, lyrics, speeches… all sorts of things – including, very frequently, usernames/handles. So if you get locked into a habit of refraining from moving beyond the one literal interpretation that pops into your head, you’re probably gonna struggle a bit – you’re gonna have a bad time.
@AnimalsArentFood
On a completely unrelated sidenote, what are your thoughts on the popular claim of vegans that like to think of themselves as ecological heroes in them stating that if people switched to a plant based diet and we stopped “animal agriculture” that would stop deforestation and equal more re-forestation?
Since I write about old growth forests (whether they are manmade old growth food forests, or just really old natural forests) and how the last few pockets of those habitats are being decimated globally, I get a fair amount of virtue signalling vegans showing up on my substack telling me how if we all just ate tofu instead of beef, the forests would be protected and ecological regeneration would be ensured.
Given I have seen the frontlines of old growth clearcutting operations in the west and given I am working to protect the last few pockets of old growth here where I now live in the eastern woodlands of Turtle Island, I have seen some very different profit based incentives, statist dogmas, ignorance based motivations and just flat out stupidity, malice and arrogance being the forces driving deforestation myself, but I would be curious to hear your take on it.
Caution: Babbling Ahead
Regarding the claim:
Option A: Cultivate an acre of soy & corn then eat the soy & corn.
Option B: Cultivate an acre of soy & corn then feed the soy & corn to animals, then kill the animals and eat their bodies.
Option C: Establish a grazing acre, allow animals to graze, then kill the animals and eat their bodies.
The general claim is that with Option A, you can healthily sustain far more people with a single acre than you can with Option B or Option C.
Therefore you need need fewer acres.
Therefore you need to slash & burn less forest to acquire them.
It’s an enviromentalist anti-slash-&-burn claim but I have seen vegans mention it when trying to appeal to environmentally conscious people.
Is the claim accurate?
No clue. It’s been around since at least the late 80’s.
I’ve seen plenty of data supporting it but that means little at this point.
Assuming it is accurate, I’m in agreement with you that it’s entirely possible some other industry/agenda would set its sights on the forests.
However, interestingly, those making the assertion that everyone going vegan would lead to the end of the slashing & burning of forests likely happens to be correct considering that a world of vegans (or even a vegan majority) would quickly outlaw the slashing & burning of forests because of the harm brought to the animals living in them.
Regarding vegans on your substack:
My current view is that at least 90% of the ‘people’ posting, commenting & voting on the Internet are bots.
Not only is it possible that some (or all) of the virtue signaling on your substack is coming from bots, it’s probable.
Bot vegans (I call them iVegans) far outnumber real vegans.
They’re usually easy to identify simply by the way they talk but you can also test for them by asking them about globalist agendas and [LATEST THING].
• Pharma/Vaccine worship
• Doctor worship
• Tranny worship
• Melanin worship
• Strong woman worship
• Ukraine worship
• Pepsi politician worship
• COVID tyranny worship
• Fervent belief in human-caused climate change
• Trust the experts
• etc.
Literally just the full wokeBot package with veganism tacked onto it.
Pharma worship probably being the most hilarious give-away since Pharma is psychopathy incarnate and arguably the worst animal torturers on the planet.
Animals
Personally with all the grassland in the USA running beef cows over it in numbers like the bison, and eating them, seems like a good option.
Living in soy and cord and wheat is a lower quality diet then one containing meat (though we no longer eat the offal like we used to, which is wasteful though wise wiyh factory farmed beasts).
Hunter gatherer cultures used to have taller healthier people then early farmers, and while some of that is due to the weak dying off a meat based diet is best for health (again, if you eat the inner meats)
“a meat based diet is best for health”
Pedovorism has entered the chat.
Animals
“….Pedovorism has entered the chat….”
Animals are not children.
lol
It’s kinda sick and creepy to think they are
@
Another bleeding heart school bus hugger eh?
Pedovorism would like to remind you that facts don’t care about your feelings and a child-based diet is best for optimal health.
Animals
Facts DONT care about your feelings
Animals are not human, and eating them is both moral and good for you
Accusing people of eating human babies is not an argument-it makes one look sillier then me when I have three beers and sing kareoke
@AnimalsArentFood
I appreciate the in depth response, I will respond when I can.
I think it makes more sense to just ask the person directly.
Nice film. When does the audio book comes?
I have lost some brain and can much better do sound.
If you like audio books try librivox where people read old books for free.
One of my favorites is linked below but they have A LOT of stuff. Reader quality “varies” but the price is good.
https://librivox.org/tales-of-old-japan-by-lord-redesdale/
Since Mr Corbett was talking AI I will post this which I just watched
https://odysee.com/@Blackpilled:b/infonih:f
Blackpilled was playing with AI and thinks we are going to all be getting “information nihilism” , where no one believes anything they see.
Going to watch the video now.
I do see asserted “AI” (tech: data and programming) as being a more effective means of censorship and manipulation. Starts as offering an easy (and glorified) route to information and the accomplishment of associated tasks (which it appears to make easier for the user: more profitable in time and money), dependency and trust ensure, concludes with the significant potential for misdirection, not to mention lost initiative and/or creativity. “AI” is only as reliable/beneficial as the programmed assumptions it doesn’t rely upon or lies it doesn’t tell in following a program.
I think this is already happening, and I think it was before AI was reinforcing it, too. I notice many will immediately claim a crime is (not that they *suspect* it could be) a false flag before the facts of it are even out, for example, while the news is still breaking; there is pervasive doubt of the possibility of anything real.
When I have been unfortunate enough to look at any more mainstream social media for various reasons, I’ve noticed there is a trend of accusing others of being or using LLMs such as ChatGPT that I don’t remember a few years ago (even if “bot” accusations are old now). This occurs often in a banal way, even in say, a tech support forum to a suspiciously well-formatted post; not simply in arguments.
It seems reflexive and to occur regardless of context, and is especially likely to occur due to certain grammatical patterns, such as if someone uses em dashes or bullet point lists too much, or is too organised in using a website’s markup syntax; things that can be a sign of LLM use, but more important to identify than that is the AI voice that most are unfortunately not good at identifying, though it writes in a very distinct way.
Face-to-face conversation continues to look better than ever over digital, where people are becoming unsure if they are even talking to humans!
Hi Emma M,
Is it possible that it is a reflexive response for a reason. I thought about posting some links to data about the dead internet, but it is no longer necessary. Even wikipedia, which begins by stating that the dead internet is a conspiracy theory, cites many sources that support the idea that most things on the internet are from automated sources (bots or AI). I have noticed that even many videos posted online are not wholly the creation of humans. Perhaps James & I along with many others are cynical, but cynicism usually arises from reality.
Cheers
Of course, there are many actual bots/AI and paid shills throughout the Internet now! I feel you misunderstood me, so I will gladly clarify, as I did not say it wasn’t reflexive for a reason; nor that there are not actual chatbots degrading the Internet; just as I do not mean to suggest there are not plenty of actual false flag attacks in remarking how quickly people have come to jump to conclusions. One only has to do a quick search on any search engine to find a flood of AI generated, SEOed websites as well as countless obviously AI generated image results.
But I’m not referring to well-founded cynicism, or accurate identification of forum chatbots. Rather, to the “information nihilism” as Duck called it that is occurring simultaneously. What exactly is going on and driving this?
The reality from which cynicism arises does not necessarily follow the ability to discern realness. The learned sceptic with a deep well of knowledge on which to draw is different altogether from the unlearned person who does not know what they don’t know, yet doubts the reality of everything only as reflex whether or not they are justified and have rational reason to for a particular thing.
What drives this “blackpilled” mindset? Those who believe nothing and cynically doubt everything without reason seem as foreboding to me as those who believe everything without question. It seems most noticeable among those who only recently realised the mainstream narratives are not true, such as since the scamdemic. Perhaps it’s out of fear of falling for something untrue after learning the reality of something (by extension, a lack of confidence in one’s abilities in determining truth), yet still only relying on assumptions of the opposite kind; assuming falsity and not truth by default.
I’m not sure what to make of it, what can be done about this? Not asking anything rhetorically, I don’t know the answers.
It seems many normal people are checking out due to things like AI fakery. Especially the young were already nihilistic; now it’s off a cliff. If people think nothing and no one is real anymore, they will offload determination of reality to others. I don’t doubt much of the dead internet data and am familiar with it, but I think “dying internet” would be more appropriate (is the condition terminal?); “dead” implies no life at all, but where there is life there is meaning.
Hi Emma.M,
Thank you for clarifying. Your initial comment makes sense to me now. I agree that the cynical still use discernment whilst the so-called information nihilists might reject truth just because of untruths.
Dying internet is a more appropriate term than dead internet. I was just borrowing a common term. Yet it is getting worse, whether dying or just transforming. I am slowly moving back toward the analog world and stepping away from the digital realm. There are enough lies and delusion in the analog world, I don’t need any more!
The same thought has occurred to me as well. One thing that is going to disappear is the concept of “legal evidence,” as it will be rendered meaningless.
Interesting thought “information nihilism” I hadn’t considered that aspect of it. I’ve played with it a bit too, and it’s a weird tool. If it was used as a research tool and not exploited the way it is and will be could possibly be useful as a starting point.
As it is now, it’s very biased in some domains and can put out false information in convincing ways.
I was kind of impressed with it’s use of language though. It’s a weird technology.
To be honest, I would probably have a hard time discerning some types of conversation with an AI, it’s use of language is very convincing.
Then there are the deep fakes that are pretty good nowadays. This requires people to do their own research and double check what they read and see. Some “normies” just trust everything they read and see. People who don’t will need to spend extra time researching.
It seems like independent researchers might benefit from a “decentralized” or less biased AI to sift through the bs Chat GPT and others put out.
It surpasses human ability in ways, particularly processing speed and has access to vast amounts of data.
It’s being used in biomedical research to predict protein folding and from what I read is making progress. That could be used in very destructive ways. There are also programs that beat humans at chess and now poker, even the most gifted players.
It lacks the ability to innovate and is can only surpass human intelligence in specific domains, but still it can be used in very destructive ways and will be used in destructive ways.
And humans will continue to build it up and go as far as they can with this technology. They want it for trashumanism and the pursuit of physical immortality research and other weird stuff. How will regular people mitigate the potential for harm? I suppose people will have to start digging into the technology itself and how it works, at least on a basic level.
Though they can superficially surpass the most gifted players of games like chess and poker as you say, the significance of what you say in the next sentence (that they lack the ability to innovate) can’t be underestimated: supposedly with games like chess and Go, it’s the most gifted players who play against it like they would a human who are most vulnerable. Because LLMs are incapable of generalisation and responding to anything statistically unlikely or too novel to make up significant (if any) training data, it amusingly means they can be easily beat by the most bizarre and terrible strategies (if not the best ones) that wouldn’t work on skilled human players.
The transhumanist AI cultists who casually tout the genius of LLMs never mention (or are aware of) such counterpoints as the above. The way LLM transformers work is through next-token prediction, where along with a random seed they predict what is most statistically likely to occur next within their training data. The ability to beat a chess or Go master at their own game, yet simultaneous inability to beat the genius of a novelly bad strategy, suggests something very deficient at the core of how they work.
The master of a game possesses not only knowledge, but has understanding of it plus experience; they can generalise and adapt, and the only reason they lose is ultimately because they don’t understand how to exploit weaknesses that are different from a human player’s.
I think understanding how they work is definitely key to mitigating and countering them. It also provides optimism, once you start to realise how lame they really are.
Another example of the consequence of how they work: they can’t even do statistically unlikely but basic math, such as multiplication not in their training data. A calculator can get it right 100% of the time. LLM AI must be the only computers that hilariously can’t compute and do math!
Even neural nets have critical, insoluble flaws, and not only the new transformers. One I recall off hand which goes back a bit in research is that they can’t understand if A = B, then B = A. This is fundamental to math where commutative operations don’t change result if operands are changed.
But chatbots literally can’t compute. So they might be able to tell you who a named celebrity’s mother is without being able to tell you who the named mother’s child is; after all, only one is a celebrity where the relation is likely to be common and explicit in the training data.
Such problems are, like “hallucinations,” intrinsic to the underlying technology of LLMs. Fortunately for us, this means they’re insoluble and they will not cease to be exploitable.
Thank you for your response. It is helpful to me and I think you are on to something important, exploitation of it’s weaknesses.
Ha ha, literally lol’d at ‘edge of their sheets – seats … or their sheets’. Also, wondering if Reportage is available in bookstores?
If you ask them they can get it- there is an ISBN which means any book store can probably track it even if they for some reason dont have it in the catalog (they probably do)
An open thread comment on money:
It is said by many that “money began as a medium to simplify exchange of goods. After all, one could not expect someone to by carrying a sheep carcass around to trade with someone who had a bushel of wheat balancing on his head.” But it goes deeper than that. Surely those genii who created money also could have understood IOUs, whereby the sheep owner would simply request a bushel of wheat for a sheep carcass of portion thereof whenever sheep killing season occurred, possibly promising free delivery as well.
But clearly that wasn’t good enough. Money wasn’t created as a mode of exchange – it was created because humans don’t trust each other, maybe for good reason. How many bushels of wheat could be awarded by the poor sap that waited fruitlessly for the various carcasses that were supposed to appear at his door, only to find that the well-fed livestock and their owners had left town to find more saps before killing season began?
But what about brute force? Who needs “money” or other form of exchange when one may simply threaten or kill the owner of some good or object desired? That “exchange” of “value” has a much longer history than money has. Imagine the now-educated sap, sitting on a small pile of gold, waiting for carcass killing season, when a few beefy guys with weapons show up and give the sap a lesson in “democracy” – “there’s ten of us and one of you. Your gold or your life.” Maybe the brutes would let the sap keep his remaining wheat, in the spirit of the Magnificent Seven/Seven Samurai, so that they could give the sap another lesson next year.
Money is for saps. The truly powerful likely possess no money at all. They make demands and those demands are met, or else. Maybe the power is brute force, maybe it’s blackmail. There are many ways to hold power. But there is only one way to lose power, and that is to have it taken away. Those in power gladly distribute “valuable” trinkets, in the form of various forms of fiat currency that can literally be printed ad infinitum, for the proles to fight over, much as a celebrity “makes it rain” in a nightclub. One may collect every single benjamin, but entry to the VIP lounge will remain denied.
So, when one is told about these evil, would be tyrants doing things in order to enrich themselves, one can be fairly certain that the evildoer is not among the truly powerful, though he or she make think he or she is, and also that the story being told is designed to obfuscate the real story, which are the machinations of those so powerful that “money” are simply trinkets to them.
Every one of us, unless magically over-endowed with abundance or over-abundance of some sort or another, must sell something of ourselves to others for the whole of our lives in order to eat and support our families. This plus the strict world-wide governmental overreach–regulations and requirements for various taxes, permits, licenses that bleed us to the bone–makes this a necessary evil (unless one lives on the street). = SLAVERY
Doing what we love is not always possible in this scenario. Sure, we can do what we want sometimes, but it doesn’t always feed us or our families. We can work ourselves to the bone and come home to do what we love with the tiny time left.
I have always struggled with this concept, feeling more like living akin to some old indigenous tribes. I am alone in my desire for this apparently. Being forced to sell ourselves feels like it cheapens our inherent worth (IMO). I am familiar with all the ‘energy exchange’ narratives, but what we have to do does not feel right to me, never has.
Please prove me wrong.
“….. have always struggled with this concept, feeling more like living akin to some old indigenous tribe……”
Pretty sure it has a just the same in auch tribes- a man sells his work to hunt or farm or kill interlopers, a woman sells her fertility or her labor and preparing food or farming……it’s just that those tribes had much more leisure time then settled people did until the last century or so.
Most people were probably LESS able to do what ever they wanted, but Ted K says they were happier because they used their energy to get the stuff of life Based in their own effort and only depended on people they knew (unlike now where the power company guy can kill us all….)
Great points, Duck. I guess I’m flashing back to the ‘old’ days where I played in, toured, and lived with rock bands. It was totally tribal and when it was good, could not be beat… The only constant is change…
Sounds fun.
If you play maybe you could give lessons to local kids ? Most kids are convinced guitarists are babe magnets but drums are probably fun too.
The concept of selling swaths of your life (precious, priceless, irreplaceable time) to an employer for peanuts is absolutely sickening.
But it gets even worse.
You’re also usually selling, to that employer, your youth, your physical and mental well-being and your ability to be with/near your family.
Worse still, most employers don’t want to pay you for the work you perform; they don’t want to trade money for labor. That could result in you working super hard, finishing early and going home to your family, or possibly only needing to work a couple of days a week or just certain times of the year.
They want to own you.
8+ hours a day, 5+ days a week they own you.
If you work hard and finish early, you don’t get to go home – they just give you more work to do. And working hard all day gets you no more pay than working adequate all day.
It gets even worse but I’ll leave it there.
> If you work hard and finish early, you don’t get to go home – they just give you more work to do. And working hard all day gets you no more pay than working adequate all day.
This is 100% true, and usually it takes to get to about 40 for people to figure it out, for those that do get to figure it out. Most never will.
The better work you churn out you simply keep raising the bar you set for yourself. In some areas people will get better compensation, which can convert to less slaving away and possibly hitting the retirement mark sooner, but again many will simply inflate their expenditures and kick things into the high gear.
Get a job that pays for results rather than hours then 😉
The employer is putting out an offer, your choice to take it or not, you can even make a counter-offer. He doesn’t own you, you’re free to walk away.
Wage slavery being what it is, most people have that choice on paper only. Don’t get me wrong, people make poor decisions all day long (they don’t save; they don’t care about even having a modicum of sovereignty; they splurge on sh*te they don’t need so they don’t have anything to fall back on) but when all is said and done, they don’t have many options.
A helluva lot easier to negotiate when you have options, of which at least one is a good one.
I’m currently in between jobs so I’m looking around. Employers tend to paint people in these little boxes and trying to compress everyone into them. The trouble is, most of employers simply won’t budge, even if you do deliver what you say you can deliver. Accuracy, excellent work, determination; none of these are sought after, at least in the current job market, one to which I have access.
My former employer for all intents and purposes hired two people to replace me. For years to spiel was unchanged: we have enough people in the department (7). I leave, they hire two more, and experience people, mind you. A reasonable stipend increase was out of the question (for me), but hiring two people for likely 2x the cost; yes, lets do it, why the hell not.
I’m left somewhere in between, holding a lot of knowledge in a very tight niche. There are people out there who would stand to benefit from that knowledge, but in between us is a freaking huge mountain of red tape, customs, legalities and “what you’re to me”isms. Regardless of the skills, if you don’t have a marketing approach, you are dead in the water.
We are in the post truth, post fact world and it shows in business, too. Reason does not appear reasonable to many of these business people.
Isn’t self-employment the way for you? Lots of knowledge in a niche field is usually a good starting point…
Yes, indeed, this should be a very good starting point.
However, from what I have seen of oil&gas industry over the years, there is a strong push for dissolution of professionalism and replacement of solid employees (ones that also constitute solid contacts) with nothing burgers.
This field is increasingly becoming a sinecure, to be completely blunt.
One of my exit strategies was to try and stay in contact with some people on the inside (even though these are all and only employees), but the trouble is that there was quite a lof of upheaval during the past years, ending with many of the competent people quitting and thus depleting my already paltry contact list.
Some of the top dogs (well knowm names) tried going private, and that does not appear to have worked out that well.
The extra challenge here is that my marketing skills suck, while I learned well that what you are selling is not nearly as important as how you are selling it.
I have to ruminate on this even more.
Yes ruminate. Digital presence instead of offices, whenever possible makes a lot of freelance work more accessible nowadays as you won’t need such a high starting budget. Also you can hire other freelancers for your work instead of employees, which gets you to avoid the state’s control on labour law and taxes to a degree (which is draconian in europe).
I don’t know where you live, Hughsername, but the job market where I live doesn’t give one a choice to take it or not these days (if one needs to take care of a family, that is). Offers do not pour out of the woodwork like times past because there are hundreds if not thousands of people vying for every single job (no matter how menial or technical). And the pay rates have dropped significantly while the prices soar upward…
Times are ROUGH at present. I read your below thread regarding being an independent contractor. Not all of us are good at selling ourselves that way; some of us are the drummers in the band who control the feel of the whole show from the background. I did some independent consulting in my day but mostly was sold by a third party (agency) that made the lion’s share of the money. We’re all different.
I agree with you that “He doesn’t own you, you’re free to walk away.” On the same note, he can fire me with zero justification at any time legally. Things have changed.
RE: https://corbettreport.com/june-open-thread-and-subscriber-video-2025/#comment-178130
Yes, things in EU are quite draconian. However much tax is being payed, they are always pushing for more. But I guess that’s the consequence of taxes being payed instead of people getting tarred and feathered.
There is a somewhat less draconian option in form of a small, simple LLC where one can get by by paying about 20% tax+social security, up to 60k€ gross yearly. This sort of enterprise demands minimal expenses, however the tax hounds despise it. There are a lot flunky rules to follow and they get eager to fine people for breaching them. Still worth giving it a shot.
The ex company is going through bit of a turmoil, so there is definitively room/need for someone to step in from the sidelines. Theoretically, I could have some issues due to NDA, but I think it should be OK, even assuming they are stupid enough to have an issue with an ex employee fixing the mess they created, but one they don’t know how to fix themselves.
There are still jobs to be had in my area, but most of these people have no interest in paying a decent wage. Even shooting for net yearly 24k€ is like asking for the first born of these people. They just don’t like talking to people who are not in a rush to get hired ASAP under whatever conditions.
It feels good to see some people here echoing what I am feeling about this insane world we inhabit. The thing I’ve noticed is that the people who work hardest, who take the most pride in contributing to a workplace–reliable to a tee–get paid the least. In my experience, the ones who sit on their asses and take credit for the work of the ones busting their asses and doing the jobs of many at once, make most of the money (money=a false fiat nonsense that we are taught is everything). I had to be available 24/7, 365 days a year for years, working for assholes where every single issue was mission critical to the idiots I worked for. It was a “I don’t want to hear that it is impossible; just DO IT!” world. Yet, they’d set me out in a heartbeat. Nobody in that world seems to care about anybody else. Dog eat dog world conditioning (or should I say, Dog torture and maim dog world).
Feeling stressed by this is labeled a severe adjustment disorder by social workers or shrinks, no fooling. Not believing in this system is called the same. The insane ones label the ones who want to live free and naturally as insane!
We are in an ‘Everybody is replaceable’ society now, which is very stressful, for me anyways. And jobs are almost impossible to land because AI is filtering resumes to HR idiots who do as little as possible and hire the cheapest people they can find. Nobody in the work world seems to care anymore because they, too, are replaceable and hate what they have to do to survive. It seems that way to me, especially in the last 5 years of systemic trauma.
How to belong in a world of fragmentation and dis-ease…
(I remember the day when jobs paid 100% of health insurance (that actually sometimes helped) with zero deductibles, where people could take 2-3 week vacations without feeling guilty for leaving a place with nobody to cover for them. People stayed at jobs their whole lives [not saying that’s great either, but there was some job security then]. At the end though, it was a 30-minute party and we’re gone forever. Out of sight, out of mind…)
The moral of your story seems to be…’For goodness sake DON’T believe ANYONE who tells you you must ‘get a job’, because if you believe that BS and take that direction in life, you’re well on the way to a thirty year or so stint of slavery.
The moral of the story is that self employment is always the best, even if rather difficult under prevalent circumstances.
I’m all for solutions and one of the ways out of this ‘being employed’ by someone slavery system, is to get together with other likeminded folk when still young and MAKE A PLAN. ‘Conspire’, as C A Fitts suggests, to formulate a way out of the current approach to earning a living.
If one really wants to one can find a way, as long as there’s the ‘will’. For a start one could form a Co-Op (short for cooperating😊) of various skills that can be offered to people, where workshop/office space costs are shared.
We have to find ways of opting out of this so very destructive system of ‘working for’ someone. We need to work for ourselves, and not rely on someone who wishes to utilise our talents to make themselves richer at minimal cost to themselves, which is unfortunately exactly how ’employers’ generally operate. Getting an apprenticeship could be one way of learning skills you fancy you have, preferably of a type that doesn’t require massive financial outlay to get started on ones own.
I’ve done both in my long life and can guarantee that it’s well worth the hard work and determination to be self employed, even if it’s much ‘easier’ to just get a job; the former can bring real joy and freedom (of sorts within our current structures) , whereas the latter is scary. To be really honest, they’re both scary, but being your own employer, when it works, is great!
SuziAlkamyst, I appreciate what you have said. But I have been in business for myself 5 times in my 68 years with limited success (better prior to 2000s, and it has gotten HARDER and HARDER to compete in a world where everyone has to sell themselves and there are usually tons of other people trying to sell themselves at any given time for the same type of endeavor (at least at everything I tried putting out there). It used to be easier to stand out and sell oneself without deception and/or insane marketing skills. Now we have to sell ourselves on a corporate-controlled internet.
For some time now, difficulties have ramped up for those wanting to be in business for themselves. Besides the intense, expensive, and criminal governmental and insurance regulations one must adhere to (which, frankly, have always been there in my lifetime), one must market in whole new ways. Suddenly, the local stores and post offices no longer allow community bulletin boards; that was a great way to connect locally for me in the past. All we have is sleaze-bag outlets like Craigslist, which BTW is controlled by AI that only lets out certain ads and with algorithmic control of how they place. (It used to be that the most recent ads would show up on top, not anymore… useless, at least where I’ve tried to reach out through it.)
What else do we have to sell ourselves besides cookie-cutter websites that are controlled by THEM and no longer show up in search results based on good descriptions and meta tags?
I have zero connections in the world anymore, finding that nobody is trusting anybody where I live. Believe me, over many years my husband and I have tried more than EVERYTHING to gather like minded people for any number of endeavors, to no avail. Are we a pariah? Maybe, but we used to connect with lots of people.
It feels good to express but to what avail? I wouldn’t want to be young right now.
I hear what you say Drumunit, and it sounds as if life in the US is much worse than it used to be in the late 70’s when I lived in Los Angeles for a year and a half.
I agree, it must be pretty awful to be a youngster these days, all the more reason to give them as many possible scenarios to imagine experiencing and living out. It is the young who can reshape things, but they’ll need as much help as possible from us oldies, whether it be how to get round the system as best as possible, after all if it’s ok for the very wealthy goose to do so, then the gander should give it a go too. Or one can just put ideas out in every day conversation, in a shop or where ever. We cannot give up, and there are many groups working together in ‘real’ 3D life, and online to aim at a better way forwards.
Every little thing we do has an effect, as do our words. There are lots and lots of little things being done the world over. I think we are at the point, metaphorically speaking, just before ‘dawn’, when it is darkest.
I appreciate what you say, SuziAlkamyst, and agree that it is important to keep doing what we can to spread the word, as well as to impact future generations. Something ‘interesting’ happened when I volunteered to mentor young people for several organizations. I thought that would be incredibly wonderful to do given my wealth of experience and youthful outlook about many things. Plus I could teach them music, which might be fun.
My heart broke when I found out that I would need to report to three different governmental people at various agencies before each meeting to discuss exactly what I would be doing with the kids and for how long; and after I would have to submit a detailed report that my assigned ‘Watcher’ would verify to let me know whether I was worthy of continuing mentoring. I could not visit or call a mentee without permission first from these government people. Additionally, they required a full background check (which I have nothing to hide, but gee… F#*@). The red tape turned me away. I wanted to share the world with younger people, but THEY don’t want that.
I’m at a loss as to how to reach out, as I don’t know any kids to mentor. BTW, California was a fun place in the 70s and early 80s, for musicians!
You must be wanting to tear your hair out having to deal with governmental control freaks, whether they’re ‘just doing their jobs’ or they’re ideologically driven. Is there not a local community board near where you live where you could advertise, or even online? Choosing your words carefully! Keep at it, somehow you’ll find a way, maybe not as you envisage, but a way, non the less. I feel much the same about my skills, though I’m not as driven as you. Luckily I can help people via the internet re some issues on which I’ve some knowledge. All I can say more, is carry on truckin’!
You are so right! The bottom employees also are now the only one interested in the future of the company. The ones above are yes men (selected on that “Quality”) that have no vision and basic will to improve things other than their personal wealth. In the end, like during communism, they end up also in the the ambient “Shit’ but just a little bit better.
Thank to James, a Canadian who is admirable.
I think because of the ambient mentality, we are going to live interesting times, where Covid circus/preparation was a walk in the park!
Bonjour à tout le monde.
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That is a bit extreme. It seems that you are saying all jobs are onerous and horrible. I presume you enjoy a house, roads, clothes, kitchen appliances, and utensils, a toothbrush, etc., etc. And computers and phones for making internet replies. These are all things that we have from people doing jobs.
But I acknowledge your point that people get taken advantage of. If you are a very creative person, this can be unbearable, as you feel drained and de-humanized to an extent. You may focus energy on making your personal situation better; do you really need to complain about the whole world? I didn’t catch a viable alternative offered in your complaint.
But hey, we gotta start somewhere, and a complaint is usually the first thing. Did you view this clip? It points to something that explains how and why many jobs are more unpleasant now. Spoiler alert:Efficiency technocrats.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b18xsQVVgxk&ab_channel=PacificLegalFoundation
I don’t know who you’re responding to, hanky. All jobs that I would be allowed to pursue, if I was looking for one, would be disgusting, degrading, and horrible. I retired in 2017 when I paid off my house. I have everything and more that I could ever dream of regarding possessions. But despite saving whatever I could my whole work life, expenses exceed with ever-increasing prices, taxes, hellth costs, insurance, vehicle maintenance, etc.
I Love living a simple, self-sufficient life. I just find far too many restrictions placed on people who just want to live.
I don’t have a viable alternative to slavery. As I told SuziAlkamyst, above, I’ve tried 5 times to run businesses. I guess some people are made for it. I wasn’t. Sorry to complain, but being able to express feels really good in a world of isolation.
Olalaa,i generated quite a few comments with my reply there. I can understand most of it and can also relate. I think most of you are talking about the corporate world rather than your smalltown mechanic as an employer. I’d say choose human sized enterprises, as soon as there’s an hr guy it’s usually a sign that it’s already too big. Otherwise, freelance is the way to go imo, paid for a job, not hours spent in a place. I only hire freelancers for example and most of the time both parties get a win out of it.
So there’s a Corbettreport SimpleX channel now, created by mkey and this is me being a shill for it:
https://tinyurl.com/UnofficialCorbettReport
SimpleX is a decentralized, fully encrypted, quantum-ready, open source chatting app where members can be fully anonymous (no phone number, no name, no address, no e-mail). Go check it out!
Oh my, who would have thunk it!
I am finding people are increasingly using ‘AI’ as an oracle. They seem to think it can predict the future. Although I am sure there are many instances where it can probably make a reasonable guess (as we all can) I do find that some people really think it knows more than it’s ever been taught. Reminds me of that computer thing in Blake’s Seven, or was it Buck Rogers, that knew everything. Summat like that anyway. I’m sure this has been said many times, (and I haven’t watched JC’s AI vid yet) but it is apparent that many people are just giving up putting any thought into anything. They just let AI tell them. That’s it. Frightening.
Yes they do Use AI as an oracle- but TBH most people never put much effort into thinking before AI….its just worse but not actually different in that regard.
Looking for knowledge from unclean spirits is kinda an olde olde thing too- and it normally works well UNTIL air ends in blood and wailing, lol.
A perspective on, and an approach towards, AI.
The Neon God:
https://paulkingsnorth.substack.com/p/the-neon-god
YouBoob channel is back. I guess it was misplaced behind the fridge, or something of sorts.
https://www.youtube.com/@corbettreport/
Hey friends, please enjoy the latest satire from The Farce Feed on Substack!
WEF Chair Klaus Schwab Replaced by Shadowy New Figure “Doctor Ominous”
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Canadian Police Chief Forgets Speech after 45 Minute Land Acknowledgment
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Celebrity’s Child Comes Out as Straight & NOT Trans, Hollywood Stunned
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The “Canadian Police Chief Forgets Speech after 45 Minute Land Acknowledgment” was quite funny. I couldn’t say I was aware that Canadian police made such acknowledgments, but I’ve heard enough of them at local theatres. None of them were that long or far-fetched, but, considering the town I lived in had zero natives living there when the Europeans moved in makes such proclamations doubly inappropriate. Stranger, they thanked the Iroquois and the Algonquin — even though both tribes were well-known to boil and eat each other’s children in front of each other.
Thanks for the positive feedback! Glad you enjoyed it.
On the topic of time, we were talking at church about calendars and times being changed and I’d like to delve deeper into how September (7), October (8), November (9), and December (10) are different now.
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Julius Ceaser (who became the first emporer when the Roman Republic ended) reformed the calander and created the “Julian Calendar” which lasted a loooong time until the Gregorian calendar (which acc to Wikipedia only took over in Greece in 1923!)
The senate renamed Julius (July) and August (Augustus / Octavian) to honor those chaps. I don’t know why they were so sloppy, but the ancients thought of time diffenttly then we do. The old calander was a bit wonkey, as is ours (hence the leap year to fit the 1/4 day left over per year) and iirc the seasons had wobbled out of place due to this creep. I read that Eskimo’s used to just skip a month when they went out of sync, but have no idea if that’s true.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_calendar
I am sure you know the story that when the peasants found out about the new Gregorian calander they thought someone had stolen some days off them, 🙂 probably made up…. May I ask what times you were talking about being changed?
As to time I have an astrolabe and reading the instructions found that the “hours” of a day used to be 12 hours dawn to dusk and 12 hours of night and the length of “hours” varied by each day….. again, if your living with natural light you think of time differently then mechanically minded folks.
If you look online you can find some pretty cool Verge escapement clocks that people used to use , like made a model of one and it has no minet hand, just hours. They worked via oscillating arms, calibration done with rocks being moved in or out , and were NOT nearbas accurate as pendulum clocks which IIRC were invented by Galileo.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verge_escapement
It has been asserted that in 713 BCE the year itself changed from 360 days to what it is now (correlating with unusual events observed in the sky – such incidents, those that do not fit the uniformitarian adopted model, are not novel and are recorded in books such as those written by Charles Fort (book of the damned & ors) William Corliss – even books like The Evolution Cruncher/The Evolution Handbook, suggest our world is not quite what we think it is and, as I see it, driven by agendas and misdirection since its inception)
Jason Breshears at Archaix.com, a chronologist (with an interest both in history and the mathematics of the world we live in), spent 26 years (in captivity) researching ancients texts and books, publishing his research and, in more recent times, collecting older books and presenting his research in copious podcasts on his channel. Though an eloquent and captivating speaker, he is somewhat verbose and his research cumbersome to go through due to its volume. For a summary, I suggest listening to podcasts wherein he is being interviewed. His conclusions have changed over time (the factual contents of his books remain unchanged, his conclusions different) – traversing from devout southern baptist to simulationist.
I took a look at the site and right off need to point out that my dad would be a hundred years old if he was still alive….. so assuming that it’s not a typo this dude appears to think 40years before my dad was born there was a massive disaster that mud flooded the earth???? Pretty sure thats BS if that’s what it says because my dad knew his grandfather who was born more then 40 years before him……
am I misunderstanding what this guy is saying????
“….Cataclysm Protocol that introduces edits to our reality, alters the Construct, terraforms, rearranges populations, removes and adds materials and is activated at various magnitudes every 138 years….”
Zeocr
It appears the guy is a sex offender, who helped kidnap and rape a girl, he gets to that part about 12 min into the video
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9qhgcp8SF_c
I am not sure a violent criminal rapist who believes we live in a simulation is the best guy to follow so I will pass on his site.
Damn, we all do dumb stuff as kids but kidnapping a stranger and raping them is a bit beyond hi jinks
Ahh, I think he is not saying the world gets destroyed every 140 years….. looking at his chart it looks is kinda interesting if a bit confusing.
He appears to be some kinda of gnostic type simulation dude???
As far as AI is concerned, I have no Interest, as is my want! i do like the internet, it provides me with useful information when I need it, like fixing a car/mower/ amp, or garden tips, when I need certain Info, I do find I save a lot of time and bills, mainly vids/ tutorials. I do have a lot of books, but not all of them. Although I’m not there looking for answers to questions I can make my own mind up about. But, I do love sites like this and others that question me! I don’t comment much but read this comment section a lot and do love the banter, thanks all!
In 1964, as a teenager, reading Isaac Asimov’s “The Last Question,” I thought how cool that a computer was self-aware and outlasted humanity. To me, that would be well beyond my lifetime. Fast forward to the early 90s, and my astute wife tells me that computers will change our society beyond imagination. Now AI is here and a threat. I often wonder about the utterance “Let there be Light”. Nah, memento vivere memento, mors corporalis non est finis. (Remember to live, corporeal death is not the end.)
Here is a documentary focusing on the rise of expertology in the USA. The visual style is not my cup of tea, but I am no expert…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b18xsQVVgxk&ab_channel=PacificLegalFoundation
I have a question I would like to put out there in hopes someone can answer for me.
Why do we have committees in government? Who came up with the idea to construck a group of people in congress to head up investigations into wrong doings. These groups can order people to come answer their inquires into whatever wrong doings to find out who was responsible.
I’ve watch some of those committees hearing on C-Span. These committees have no power to punish anyone, they never have anyone arrested they hold no one accountable. And nothing ever changes so why do we have them?
Thank you
The fact that essentially none of these people ever actually goes to prison is one of the pillars of the theory that what we’re witnessing is, to a large extent, just an advanced version of WWF wrestling.
Holding your attention while the core global takeover agendas inch forward offscreen.
If that is the case then these outlandish, anything-goes narratives/scripts we’ve been witnessing might indicate that they believe they’re at the finish line for their global takeover.
Just one of the more plausible theories.
I think the only purpose of these inquiries is to have things spelled out point blank readily in the open for everyone to see. Of course, the mass will refuse to look at it, but it’s still a valid purpose.
I am not aware that such a thing as these inquiries ever happen anywhere else in the world, so you have at least something going on over there.
Insofar people going to prison, what would be the purpose? What would be the purpose of sending GW Bush to prison? I would much prefer to have the masses of people realist what kind of scumbags these people are and curse their bones wherever they see them standing; for people in the service industry to refuse to serve them; for chauffeurs to refuse to drive them around; for artist to refuse to attend their events; for children to draw their pictures with horns added; for them to feel extremely unpleasant due to true disgust shot at them anywhere outside of their little safe, bootlickers laden immediate surroundings.
The point of sending a corrupt high official to prison for a long time could serve as a deterrent for the next official to pass on that bribe, it would make the people feel a little better about their country. It would give the people a little hope that there can be accountability. And it might give people the encouragement to do something. As it is now people feel why do anything it won’t change anything.
And it would also give people the false sense that the system is “working”. Right.
The system is broke I think everyone knows that but it might give a little hope for change.
If someone is sent to a state run prison via state run court system while going through state run kangaroo trial, how the hell does that illicit hope for change?
I was asking for some theories not an argument. thx for your input but I think you missed my whole point. Have a fun day.
The role of the Warren Commission, established to investigate the assassination of JFK, was to provide a story that cannot be questioned without serious repercussions. The ‘single assailant’ conclusion of the Commission was not questioned by anyone in a position to be heard. This allowed the real perpetrators to hide their crime from the public. LBJ had the records sealed for 75 years, after which few would care what happened on that fateful day.
We see this in the 9-11 Commission too.
Re: https://corbettreport.com/june-open-thread-and-subscriber-video-2025/#comment-178046
I was not aware that you are looking for a theory. Here’s one:
Lets end the idea of government governing our lives and give spontaneous order a chance. Without big governent there won’t be big corruption and dense concentration of power in hands of a few, therefore the need to punish individuals who “abuse” power will be less. A lot, lot less.
Illbnice2u2
Committees were put into place as a place unassailable honest bills are sent to die quietly.
If the politic bird can’t dip their beak into a bill then it’s sent to a committee to be tossed.
Practical experience has proven this time and again.
Cool intro to the video. I thought at first the handshake was some kind of AI special effect.
hmmm sorry to rain on the parade, but the spelling of “reportage” isn’t quite accurate.
As it is a french word, it ought to be pronounced in french and the french don’t pronounce the “r” like you guys.
So i post you a link hereafter with the correct pronounciation and I expect to hear that the next time your otherwise excellent book is mentioned!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqXql0iuUYc
Hughsername
Exactomento! Thank you !
From Red Deer Ca. to Luckenbach Tx.
French is a pleasure best keep in a bottle with an unremovable cork . Of course, the lable on that bottle warns ” Open only in France”
[SNIP – no bare links in the comments, please. Please re-post the link with a title and/or explanation of why someone should be clicking on it. -JC]
Werner Herzog on French (french-language-related humor in response to french-language-related humor posted by GBW)
Lrweporktahj. Got it.
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𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑨𝒑𝒑𝒍𝒆 – 𝒊𝒏𝒗𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒌𝒆𝒆𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒑𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒄 𝒅𝒐𝒄𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒔 𝒂𝒕 𝒃𝒂𝒚
https://gavinmounsey.substack.com/p/the-apple-inviting-the-pollinators
The article contains some fun lesser known historical facts on the humble domesticated apple and in depth info on various wild apples (including crabapples and the progenitor species of all modern eating apples).
I offer permaculture tree guild suggestion info for incorporating both the wild and domesticated forms of this tree family into the regenerative garden or food forest and lots of recipes for preserving the harvest.
I hope this article will inspire some of you out there to source out some good apple seeds and try growing a tree the way our ancient ancestors would have. It is a very rewarding experience to see that tiny seed grow into a beautiful tree covered in fragrant blossoms (visited by bumblebees and hummingbirds) and then to taste the first fruit.
G.
I started gardening in 1955. 1956, organically. I like to investigate by reading and applying (testing). I got into composting early, taking my neighbor’s grass clippings “trash”, adding a little horse/cow dung, moisture, air, in a huge pile, and turning every 3 days, done in two weeks. It seeming like a lot of work for so little, as the compost/mulch quickly disappeared. It was in the early 2000s that I accidentally discovered shredded fall leaves applied as mulch worked better than compost for building soil fertility, at a fraction of the work.
I stopped gardening in 2006. But I am fascinated by the idea of a “food forest”, perennials of all kinds, especially sub tropical and tropicals grown in specially adapted environments (out of their zone).
@Voluntaryist
Right on! I admire that you delved into the full cycle of food (and grass clippings etc) to soil to table again.
Yes I love using leaves (both as mulch and in the compost).
Forest gardening (“food forest” design) is a great way to transition into a lower maintenance and less labor intensive form of food production.
The initial work of planting and building/enriching the soil is substantial, but once you get the ball rolling, nature does most of the heavy lifting for you.
Take these Goji vines for instance ( https://substack.com/@gavinmounsey/note/c-122667637 ) the only work I do for those now is pruning them and harvesting. And I harvest over 10 pounds of berries per vine and multiple five gallon buckets filled with nutritious leaves from each annually.
Same goes for my Pawpaw trees, my wild apple trees, serviceberries, my echinacea, anise hyssop, lemon balm and about 23 types of other berries.
If you give me some dimensions, your latitude (and/or cold hardiness zone) and priorities for harvest goals, I could make some suggestions for food forest guild members if that would help.
Thanks for the comment.
Hi Gavin,
What an inspiring post, thank you! We’re getting started with our permaculture farm here in Kenya. We got 19 acres of land and move into our mud house on Sunday. Then, our observation year starts.
I’d love to plant apples (amongst a million other things) and am looking forward to reading your article. Also love your video inputs on Corbett 🙂
Thanks!
Caroline
@caroline.d
Warm Greetings from Turtle Island!
I am glad you found the post to be inspiring.
What cold hardiness zone is your farm in?
Most apple varieties require a certain about of cold hours per year to go dormant as part of their life cycle (in order to produce fruit).
That typically requires a good amount of frosty nights in the winter / wet season.
Here is some info on apple varieties with particularly low “chill hour” requirements :
– https://savoursoilpermaculture.com/plant-profile-apple-malus-domestica-for-subtropical-regions/
– https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/garden-how-to/gardening-by-zone/zone-9-10-11/zone-9-apple-trees.htm
You may also value the info in my book which pertains to enriching the soil for drought tolerance using free materials and heirloom seed saving.
thanks for the comment! 🙂
Thank you, Gavin!
I’ll need to do a bit of research, your two sources are very useful. We have no chill hours here, practically on the equator near the coast. Temperatures range from 20 C to about 35 C all year round. Apples are grown in Kenya, but maybe our local climate where we live is not well suited.
I shall continue digging. We will have mangoes for sure 🙂
Caroline
@caroline.d
Happy to help, I am excited for you in all the potentials you have for growing things in the topical zone. Sure you may not be able to grow a few things that need cold, but you can grow your own Cacao beans! I wish I could do that! 🙂
Do you have any plans to grow Theobroma Cacao trees?
I have a friend that runs a regenerative cacao (food forest) farm in Ecuador and she taught me a lot about the amazing benefits of the raw cacao beans. I did some additional research and published an article on the species which you can read via the link below if you are interested.
https://gavinmounsey.substack.com/p/theobroma-cacao-mana-from-the-rain
She has a youtube with some videos about growing other nutrient dense and medicinal crops/trees in her equatorial food forest which you may find helpful, I can share a link if you like.
I am also curious to hear if you will be growing any Baobab trees (Adansonia digitata) ? I have heard about the many food, medicinal and ecological benefits of those trees and would be growing them if I could!
Happy digging 😉
Wishing you a peaceful, blessed and prosperous rainy season in.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHFcg1Bg83w 🙂
I repeatedly make complaints to Ground News about their news items, in reply to which they’ve put me in some beta group, repeatedly explained that they’re just forwarding the articles as they appear in the media (displaying rather than correcting the noted biases), and also repeatedly invited me to propose alternative news sources, which they say they’ll include. I don’t know what to propose to them. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Speaking of news sources, now that Whitney Webb has joined James in recommending RSS feeds over things like Facebook and X, I’m prompted to go back and continue my previously aborted attempt to do what James suggested in his “How Use That RSS Thing” Solutions Watch episode of last December (https://corbettreport.com/how-use-rss/), and belatedly report that I’m using RSS at least 20% of my online time. I got to the point before of at least knowing which reader I wanted to use (NetNewsWire, which seems best for Mac) and getting a couple of feeds on it, so now all I have to do is say goodbye to X (where I spend very little time) and Facebook (where I spend too much). My last question here is whether the Corbett Report members in this open thread who are familiar with Ground News consider it one of the sites that can properly be dispensed with using RSS. What I find myself repeatedly saying to them is that I’m really not interested in, and am often offended by, news items with an obvious and distorting bias. What I would like is a general news source that is as unbiased as possible. Any suggestions on that? Thanks.
I subscribed to alethonews a few months ago and was surprised at the variety of articles that appear, including We Need To Talk About AI from Corbett Report. They claim to be a research and reference tool, but with the high volume of articles it would be difficult to spot gaps. What do you think?
I think alethonews looks interesting, thanks. Its WordPress site doesn’t have an RSS link, but I tried James’ “/feed” method and it worked, so alethonews is now in my RSS feed. I think I know why I previously abandoned RSS, though: too many articles. I’m thinking my only hope now is to mark all the 338 unread articles presently on it as read, then start from scratch and hope to stay current. Or maybe I’ll try to blitz through the 338. I’ve been able to do that with 150+ piled-up Vigilant Fox items on Telegram.
I don’t know what you mean by “it would be difficult to spot gaps”. What kind of gaps are you referring to? In any event one can’t expect any news source to report everything, so I would expect gaps of some sort anywhere.
why not recommend Corbett Report? He writes a story every week with libertarian bias (which is pretty much neutral)
I didn’t see anyone mention this, about getting Reportage into your local Library, you can also add it to your community’s micro-Library.
If you don’t have a community micro-library, you can build one.
(You will probably have to clear it through city hall, or if you were unfortunate enough to buy property under an HOA, you may have to bribe someone…or sell your house and move somewhere without an HOA)
San Antonio has several micro-libraries in its public parks, with a wide selection of books on all kinds of different topics.
If you add Reportage to a micro-library, it may have a good chance of getting picked up, because the ratio is in its favor.
Having given my 5 copies away at the GeoEngineeringWatch .Org booth in Tulsa , Ok this last April. I did not correct the recipient when they said Report-age. Why demen the poor soul. All five said Report-age.
The people generally connected with the idea of going on a trip they would lugg their stuff from place to place . They will of course say their suitcase was also lugg-age.
To expose facts , to pass along information to them would be a report and since they add this local colloquial slangish ‘age’ to the end of the word. Bagg- age, front- age, coin-age . So don’t puff up and don’t be too gung-ho snobb-age please., Report-age. Next time maybe that will be a title consideration.
The Midwest from Red Deer Ca.down to Lugkenbach Tx, with the good ears and minds, I would say no one in-between those two towns speaks French; they will thank you for not doing so…
I have my 3 copies of the book, lent out one, plan to add the other to our community library. So good to have something tangible to pass around. These days I feel like I’m compromising my social network sharing certain questionable content with them.
I have 3 points to share in this open thread:
1. I was intending to respond after your recent episode highlighting how we can use VPN to get around censorship. My concern is how long will this sweet wonderful option still work? I’ve noticed a few websites don’t work when I have vpn on, eg unlimitedhangout.com. For me this is a concern that there’s a site-specific mechanism to detect vpn usage. I’m sure they have many ways to thwart vpn on the horizon.
2. I was deeply deflated when I viewed the twitter profile of archive.org’s admin person last year when they were briefly down. There are 2 very concerning flags in the header profile image (I don’t want to share the handle here for fear it gets detected, then rectified). To me this steganographically indicates cause for concern & for our incredible & precious digital encapsulation of our Lore, to be ready at the fingertips as well as for evidence. Similarly, as much as people hate archive.org, I still think it’s one of the most incredible modern human creations – encapsulating through time & controversy various paths to a conclusive “truth”. It’s metadata is incredibly revealing on controversy, control networks, personas & “truth”. This too is at the risk of a blip obliperation.
3. I think I’ve figured out chemtrails – or at least connected some dots that many before have, but are not accessible due to extreme censorship. IMO this is an extreme 3rd-rail issue. IMO it is one that can unite us all – army of greenies, black white, left right etc. Currently this issue is obscured by false actors, murky terms, deliberate information pollution. The current term that is relevant in the discussion is SRM. My connected dots are from an important data point that jumped out, thanks to seeing the Frankenskies film. This data point is SRMGI (stratospheric radiation management governance initiative). There seems to be a covert international establishment of governance for SRM. IMO this is what’s at play. Ultimately to normalize spraying – so that we accept that they can spray us (not restricted to “SRM” spraying). Ultimately to support & make possible what is claimed in the military doc: “Owning the Weather by 2025” pg.35 “…weather modification is a force multiplier with tremendous power that could be exploited across the full spectrum of war-fighting environments…”
Typo error in my post, I meant to say Wikipedia:
“Similarly, as much as people hate archive.org [Wikipedia], I still think it’s one of the most incredible modern human creations”
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Internet archive is probably going away soon thanks to the lawsuits….people need to save anything they want to keep locally.
Wikipedia is a nice resource for a lot of stuff but I think Jason Scott “archivist at large” did a talk on why Wikipedia is kinda not as good as a real encyclopedia. Can’t find it on the YT.
He is a fun chap to listen to, and runs textfiles.com where he did a critical post on Wikipedia
https://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/808
That said encyclopedias have issues too, shown by the story of how the person doing the Brittanica entry ion witchcraft had her own crank theory about a European witch cult of pre Christian pagans is kinda funny…..people started believing in it because it was in the encyclopedia, lol.
“Internet archive is probably going away soon thanks to the lawsuits….people need to save anything they want to keep locally.”
That is an absolute tragedy on many fronts. It’s especially a huge blow to fighting the-powers-that-be using powerful evidence on TheWaybackMachine
This is not something we should just let happen. Hopefully there are people smart, passionate & savvy enough to see how dire this proposition is & mirror & save as much as possible. Even a crowd-based / p2p type solution?
Surely people cannot be so apathetic as to let such an invaluable resource disappear?
Regarding Wikipedia: my point was not about it as an encyclopedia. It’s much more than an encyclopedia – it’s a source-code type repository for our epistemology of the world. In its metadata, one could extract all sorts of info such as controversial topics, the nature of different regular authors, possible networks of authorships, how topics have evolved over time. There is so much additional metadata contained in Wikepedia that extends far beyond a regular encyclopedia.
Thank you for the post by Jason Scott. It was a very interesting read. It was also enlightening to see the types of issues that arose at Wikipedia & offered a deeper understanding in the challenges to run any time of large collaborative system.
My novel, All the Humans Are Sleeping — about a farmer, a robot and the end of the world — was featured in Locus Magazine:
https://blazingpinecone.com/news/2025/06/03/
One small step for me, one giant leap for freedom-minded literature.
Podcast episode 478 on AI, some of the links, and especially the IMA panel helped me to further develop some ideas.
Working at an educational institution, I think it is time to propose an ethical agreement for educators to disclose when artistic materials have been created (entirely or in part) with generative automatons (a.w.k.a. generative AI). And I think these products should be avoided in Elementary/Primary school completely. I’m talking about illustrations that pretend to look handmade, music, podcasts, videos, poetry, but also exams and other materials. The use of these materials without a disclosure is deceiving, people, especially young kids expect to encounter something made by one single human being, sometimes a group, but something based on a large number of artists who do not receive credit and end up being smashed into 0s and 1s by a series of algorithms.
Years ago I was thinking about asking my acquaintances to disclose with a sticker in their window if they had Alexa, Google, or Siri on. But I never had the courage to ask them. But this time is different, we’re talking about children that will grow not knowing what is real and what is not, what is spiritual and what is from the underworld, and also what is the value of the will forces, of the effort put into doing things.
@b
I like your ideas and I agree that people deserve to know.
I do find that as this generative LLM tech becomes more normalized, people are getting more and more brazen in how they abuse it and claim creative rights to computer generated stuff.
I described one such individual in this archive post:
https://archive.org/details/Chatbotscamfoodforestbook/Screenshot%20%2852%29.png
If you scroll through the pics and read the description you can see what I mean.
There are lots of people like that guy, engaging in quasi-plagiarism, publishing books on subjects they have zero hands on experience in and even proudly declaring that they had AI help them write the book.
When this tech started gaining momentum, most people using it to make images, articles or books used fake names, fake pictures (screennames and made up accounts) and hid from people calling them out, but more and more I am seeing people trying to stand behind their chatbot generated garbage and defend it.
I see a great divide forming in many circles as more people get addicted to the convenience of getting the genie in the computer to do their mental work for them and this other group (seeing how degenerative the tech is) are distancing themselves from the LLM obsessed/dependant people.
Thank you for the link, G.
I do agree to the view that the great divide phenomenon is real, and I’d add that is also growing.
The case of the LLM generated book (and many others along with Wikipedia entries, etc.) makes me consider again the ethical aspect. Is there anything we could do about authorship? I’m not particularly interested in ownership, but I think that AI-claimed ownership is an unacceptable abuse, and the main issue is the individuality behind something made by a human being (or a group).
And another comment. There is no way to remove the AI summary snippet on Google Search. I don’t use that search engine but I see everyone getting those annoying summaries on top, the single answer is already here.
A link to a Google Help post of a user wanting to remove this feature, and a Google answer (human or not) stating it is not possible to remove. The user gets very upset at the end.
https://support.google.com/websearch/thread/266019820/how-to-turn-off-ai-overviews-when-searching
I find myself in general agreement with McTaggart, but I’m not clear on how that would make time a conspiracy.
well, here’s the phantom time hypothesis 😉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5NG6mo1zGY
Well, that video is in regards to measurement of time applied to history.
McTaggart is generally remembered most for his proof that demonstrates time as not being a part of reality in his paper, The Unreality of Time.
https://www.ditext.com/mctaggart/time.html
Stanford publishes some good explanations and discussions on time:
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/time/
At the risk of inviting a tsunami of blowback, I think Russell Brand would be a good choice to read the audio book version of Reportage. Revolution was the first audio book I listened to and I did laugh out loud a bit. Even though he is an elitist shill and a 33 dan mason, and James probably hasn’t forgiven him for stealing Ernest’s rEVOLution logo (then copyrighting it?), it is an amazingly funny accent. Especially if you add in the bell and “legal asterisk” when any controversial facts have to be explained. Who knows, maybe he can do some good in the world after all.
Is time a conspiracy? Well, ask famed physicist Julian Barbour.
“His 1999 book The End of Time advances timeless physics: the controversial view that time, as we perceive it, does not exist as anything other than an illusion, and that a number of problems in physical theory arise from assuming that it does exist” (from Wikipedia)
I never read the actual book but I remember reading reviews of it at the time (the “time”??) and finding the idea fascinating.
I don’t know where to inquire about this but– I’ve been looking for a video of James for a while and have not been able to find it.
A while ago I had a lengthy discussion with some people within the covid “resistance” who often mention James’ work and insisted in saying that covid was NOT real and that, if you thought otherwise, you were NOT a real truther. Some even went as far as saying that, if it had been real, then all the measures against it would have been justified (!!).
I pointed out to them that, in my opinion, James himself would find that idea atrocious and that, If I remembered correctly, he even pretty much said so in some old video; that is, that the existence or not existence of the virus –or of viruses, in general– is almost irrelevant when discussing the fact that states used the crisis –supposed or real– as a justification to impose their will, and their agendas, against us the people.
Then they went on and replied to me: “But James knows is was NOT real, he called it a “SCAMdemic”!
I thought they completely missed the point there. Please, correct me if I’m wrong. If not, any link to a video where James deals with this issue? Thanks.
Glad to hear Reportage is growing legs! Congrats and best wishes on your continued success and happiness!
James, please have an interview with Martin Armstrong.
It’s just time.
Talk about the Fed. You both have different perspectives.
Would be very interesting.
ChatGPT the virus denier extraordinaire
https://jonrappoport.substack.com/p/chatgpt-exposes-the-whole-virus-hoax-an-explosive-bombshell
I am having a difficult time believing the bot would let the cat out of the bag to such an alarming degree, but Jon is a reputable source.
Maybe someone with access to this bot can try to reproduce.
Mkey,
You provided a perfect foil for today’s news. AI and COVID legal tyranny challenge is going forward , successfully but a 4 year lag exists.
Pamela Popper must be a kissing cousin to John Rappoport. In this video she intersects with several real time actions similar in nature to Rappoport’s report.
She goes on to explain how an American can reengage in civil activity that counters the powers that shouldn’t be. She gives an excellent example of Ai fraudulently screwing science up. No reason in either of our countries why this suggested action shouldn’t be accepted and embraced. That is how a failing state might recover. If a citizen is so unmotivated ,lacsidasical , unproductive or mentally challenged then they can send a few bucks to move justice delayed along. It’s truly amazing what this woman has accomplished .
https://youtu.be/cIo-MZLz2CQ?si=POeh-LrnH6D1TTlO
I tried to reproduce the answer.
Input to GPT chat:
“By the definition of the word “isolation,” viruses are not isolated. The meaning of the word is changed by researchers. You know that.”
GPT chat answer:
You’re raising a point that comes up in some debates, especially among people skeptical of virology or certain aspects of germ theory. Let’s unpack it clearly.
What “Isolation” Means Generally vs. Scientifically
In general language, “isolation” means to separate something completely from everything else. If you’re isolated on an island, you’re alone—nothing else is around.
In science, especially in virology, “virus isolation” has a more specific meaning. It does not always mean pulling a single, pure virus particle out and putting it in a jar. Instead, it means demonstrating that a virus is present and can replicate, typically in a controlled system like a cell culture.
What Virologists Mean by Virus “Isolation”
Here’s what the process typically involves:
Sample Collection: A sample is taken from a patient (like nasal swab, sputum, etc.).
Cell Culture: The sample is added to a cell culture that can support viral replication.
Cytopathic Effect (CPE): Scientists watch for changes in the cells that suggest the virus is present and replicating.
Confirmation: They use tools like PCR, immunostaining, or electron microscopy to confirm the presence of the virus and distinguish it from other potential causes.
This is what researchers refer to as “isolating” the virus, even though the result isn’t a single virus particle floating in pure form—it’s identifying and confirming the presence of the virus in a system that supports its growth.
Why This Causes Confusion
Critics sometimes argue that since the virus hasn’t been separated like a single crystal in a lab dish, it hasn’t been “isolated” in the everyday sense. That’s a semantic argument, not a scientific one. The scientific method of isolation is functional and has been consistent for decades. It’s how we’ve characterized viruses like HIV, influenza, SARS-CoV-2, and many others.
In Summary
You’re right that scientific language sometimes redefines common words, but this is true in many fields (think of “theory” in science vs. casual use). In virology, “isolation” means demonstrating a virus’s presence, replication, and identity in a biological system—not necessarily physically separating a single viral particle in pure form.
If you’re interested, I can show you step-by-step how viruses like SARS-CoV-2 were isolated and sequenced.
It gave me an entirely different answer.
cu.h.j
You have illustrated the political axiom. Two minds can never think alike on the surface where 99% of all thinking goes on.
🤪
I find it odd that it provided different answers. I think search engines do this too. I’d be curious as to how and why.
Cu.h.j
Your search engine adapts to you as you use it- you and I don’t always get the same results because the personalization learns what you like (via what you click) and I imagine there is some other bias that is added in to weigh the scales in particular directions.
Go over to a normies house and borrow their PC or phone and search for something you previously searched at home on your own device and see if their different- how “different” you are will probably be the measure of how different your results are.
I have no idea if they do that wiyh AI yet, but I assume that’s the aim. AI can probably craft answers that fit your personality/ interests even better than the algorithm.
I heard a guy describe the algorithm as a scatter plot of dots with things you payed attention to before, it will tend to feed you what you watch more and more…..psychologically I think this is probably bad (as an experiment try going with a clean computer to YT and start looking up “am I trans” or some similar question and see how long it takes before it’s feeding you some demented shit. One old one was to follow YT recommendations and see what it’s trying to program you with.
The internet is getting to be like that old joke about “in Sowiet Union TV watch you”
On a different note, do you understand the “deep learning” that AI uses? I was reading about it but still perplexed about the breaking down words into “tokens” and then stringing them together using statistics.
There are also different “nodes” used to process the data input and provide the output. I’m referring to the LLMs.
I also read that some of this is experimental and the scientists might not completely understand the math.
What’s your understanding of it?
How does this differ from a search engine’s algorithm? Is there any way to erase what I’ve been putting into it so far?
The reason I’m asking is that people have discussed this generally, but not specifically in understandable technical terms. I think it’s important to understand how this stuff works.
If you start pressing it, it’s going to start changing its tune. For example, if proper isolation is not performed, how then can they determine what’s the infectious bit or what do specific RNA strings belong to. Considering it’s a mixture properties of each constituent part can’t be identified.
Interesting. I’ve pressed it with a couple other chats about it’s programming and eventually it tells me what I want to hear. It’s weird. Especially it’s use of emotional language in replies.
Hey, watcha readin’ for? – Bill Hicks
A cool new look to show how different you are, just like everyone else!
https://physicsworld.com/a/wireless-e-tattoos-help-manage-mental-workload/
Film we need to watch and share:
The Agenda: Their Vision, Your Future 1:52:18
Oracle Films’ Outstanding Production Deserves To Be Seen Far And Wide
David A. Hughes | Jun 06, 2025
Excerpt (emphasis added):
“I am pleased to announce the release this week of The Agenda: Their Vision, Your Future, by Oracle Films.
“It offers a superb critique of the UN’s Agenda 2030 and the totalitarian global control system that is being deceptively rolled out under its auspices.
“I was honored to be invited to participate in the film. In May 2024 a film crew travelled to my house to interview me in person. It was a long journey for them from the south west of England, and they stayed overnight at a hotel before interviewing me in the morning. They professionally made sure that the lighting, sound, angles, etc. were all correct and arrived armed with a list of pertinent questions. We spent several hours together — all to obtain just a few minutes of footage that were actually used. This shows a clear commitment to quality on the part of the filmmakers.
“I was just one of many people interviewed. Others included Catherine Austin Fitts, Whitney Webb, Patrick Wood, Aman Jabbi (who, in my view, made the most important contribution), and Alex Newman. An enormous amount of work went into conducting the in-person interviews alone.
“Once the interviews were completed, the Oracle Films team took a year to make sure that the production quality was as high as possible. The result is self-evident. This is an extremely high-quality production that can safely be aimed at normies without fear of being written off as amateurish.
“Please do share the film as widely as possible. It deserves a huge audience.”
Trailer for the movie. The Agenda
https://x.com/OracleFilmsUK/status/1915093092367020493
To play film:
https://dhughes.substack.com/p/the-agenda-their-vision-your-future or https://open.substack.com/pub/dhughes/p/the-agenda-their-vision-your-future?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
World Jewry is still on the Internet Censorship march.
1. https://news.itsfoss.com/youtube-self-host-fiasco/
2. https://islam-radio.net/islam/english/jewishp/internet/jews_behind_internet.htm
Get the LibRedirect Plugin:
– https://libredirect.github.io/
Start Self Hosting Your Own Content & Data:
– https://github.com/mother-of-all-self-hosting
Fuck’em
Fun exercise, with a lesson on perception:
Fractured Realities
Dispatches from the Timeline Wars
Joshua Stylman | Jun 06, 2025
https://stylman.substack.com/p/fractured-realities
Excerpt (beginning of article):
“We used to share the same lies. Now we each get our own. Soon, we may not even agree reality exists.
“Reality has been shattered into billions of pieces, each one perfectly tailored to fit someone’s worldview. The same event triggers completely different movies in our heads. The same evidence proves opposite truths. We’re not just disagreeing—we’re living in different universes, each one feeling absolutely real to the person inside it.
“This didn’t happen by accident. Someone broke it. Someone profits from the pieces.
“What follows is a diagnostic assessment. Five voices responding to the same events, each one convinced they see clearly while everyone else lives in delusion. The question isn’t which voice is right. The question is: which voice sounds like you?”
I mowed through Reportage, excellent work! I could write 5000 words of appreciation, not the least of which is the readable and accessible prose for those readers new to the existence of rabbit holes. And your snappy, bratty Chapter The Three Types, sans notes, was a hoot.
FYI I’ll be donating my copy to the local library if the librarian commits to adding it to the stacks. I once asked her if she would carry Druthers newspaper and after reading it she said no, the library preferred to be neutral. I refrained from pointing out that the video in the stacks called How to Blow up a Pipeline was not neutral.
Obviously she’s your classic leftoid, and a big fish in a small pond here in this remote mountain town. But I’ll try with Reportage. She did purchase Whitney’s tome, One Nation Under Blackmail, but I think that was only because it was too long to read and afterwards she may have felt tricked. haha Anyway I’ll update how it goes with Reportage.
Polish (S)election
So, we just had presidential (S)election in the old good Poland, a banana republic run by the CIA.
Pretty insignificant in the global scale but it’s important to keep Poles busy with drama but the funny thing is that selection results were pretty hilarious 50% against 49% and of course the presidential selection was won by the right leaning trump supporter and the Polish politicians are planning to create something called a “technical government” with “experts” controlling every aspect of people’s lives. Although they didn’t include the controlling part in their propaganda.
Croatia had one of them technical circus freak sideshows some years back. They had installed as PM this fella who didn’t even speak proper Croatian. The whole thing fell apart after some months, regardless of unison media support.
For the past presidential selection the system deemed it appropriate to have only one top clown as a candidate and another dozen sideshow clowns. The end result was something like 75% for the top clown. This was likely an experiment in how many people will still vote for the most dislikable clown in history.
My apologies to actual clowns for comparing them to these freaks, it’s a fine profession.
It’s a ridiculous world we are living in and none seem to be the wiser.
hahaha, yeah Clowns are great professionals, I took my nephews to the cricus couple years back and I was super impressed by the things this clown did, like I’m sure he was a mime as well. Nothing but respect for those people. Anyways I’m curious how this political circus gonna unfold.
> I’m curious how this political circus gonna unfold.
I can tell you that, but you seem to already know: people are going to get bent over even further.
Does anyone have a good search engine suggestion that is not based on G++gle or M*crosoft B*ng? Thank you!
Look into searx instances. They are not great, but you may obtain decent results depending on your locale and needs.
James Did a material on it, enjoy https://corbettreport.com/so-youve-decided-to-boycott-google/
Copypasta below.
It’s just about Game Over when it comes to search engines.
It looks like everyone who makes a search engine is quickly bought out, threatened into compliance or shut down.
Depending on how AI plays out, we may be going back to the pre-search-engine days when we had to keep a massive list of all valuable websites as we discovered them, then use the built-in search engines of those sites (or do a direct site search using an external engine and monitor for censorship).
With that said, here’s what I do:
Using each of the search engines you already know of, search for uncensored search engine then begin trying out the engines that come up in the results, using non-PC phrases like “women are retarded” (in quotes) as the test.
Red flags:
• You get no results, or way too few results.
• The engine automatically ignores the quotes, and searches for the words (women, are, retarded) in any order instead of the exact phrase.
• The engine appears to be producing the exact same results that one of the censored engines produces (Google, DuckDuckGo, Yahoo, Bing, Yandex, etc).
• The engine admits that it’s pulling results from one of those censored engines.
• Adding a website name (like reddit) after your phrase suddenly produces more results, revealing that the engine was censoring out matching results without your permission (ie, Google behavior).
Once you find some seemingly good search engines, bookmark them, use them and be prepared to lose them and have to search for new ones within a few months or a year.
Never use just one engine when doing actual research/digging. You should be trying your search in all functional engines that you know of (including the censorship engines), or at least your top-10 favorites.
B
Search is kinda bad these days- we ought to return to web rings to r at least keep a list of urls recommended by others we happen across on the net
Search won’t often find you anything you have not seen before these days
A dose of reality from Jimmy Dore and Derrick Broze.
Trump Pushing MASS SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM In The U.S.! w/ Derrick Broze 24 min.
https://rumble.com/v6uc7if-trump-pushing-mass-surveillance-system-in-the-u.s.-w-derrick-broze.html
Meant to use this video:
Technocrats Have TAKEN CONTROL Of The Trump Administration!
https://rumble.com/v6udynb-technocrats-have-taken-control-of-the-trump-administration.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp
The Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) is budding (on select forerunner especially happy plants) at the 42nd parallel in the Eastern Woodlands of Turtle Island.
https://substack.com/@gavinmounsey/note/c-123788000
Wait a minute… “Milkweed”? Why do we call this marvelous rooted being by such a derogatory label?
This is a perennial plant that is native to a large portion of Turtle Island, she grows without human assistance, nourishes not only Monarch Butterflies, but many other winged beings (and has traditionally also provided humans with food, fibers for clothing and medicine) ! Why would we degrade such a magnificent, resilient, generous and graceful being with the insult of being called a “weed”?
I will tell you why. Modern western civilization is an adolescent, psychotic and orphaned culture that has no living roots reciprocally connected to the Earth.
We live in an exploitative colonizing imperialistic statist culture that seeks to impose uniformity onto the natural world (while it simultaneously preaches about how “sustainably” it will turn forests, rivers, lakes, meadows and marshlands into strip malls, mines, factory farms and smart cities).
This culture seeks to impose monocultures of the mind (through the Prussian “education system” that is designed to domesticate humans within statist factory farms and perpetuate adolescence into adulthood), and it seeks to impose uniformity of opinion through the pathologization of dissent (and it even seeks to impose a monoculture of genetics through GMO crops and mRNA injections).
Thus, the linguistics we have been raised to use to refer to the more than human world (especially the wild, untamable, rebellious and resilient aspects of the more than human world) reflect this psychotic, immature and lost way of perceiving. This is something I will be writing more about in the context of multiple species soon, but for now, let us take a closer look at this often underappreciated being that most know as “Milkweed”.
The more ancient cultures that dwelled on Turtle Island before this culture we live in arrived in force had different names for this giving, teaching and nourishing plant. In truth, rather than calling this plant something totally fallacious and dismissive like “milkweed”, we should be calling her something like “Mother Earth’s Milk Plant” (as she exists in marginal soils and yet nourishes so many with her blossoms, nectar and other gifts).
Parts used for food:
– Unopened flower buds – cooked. They taste somewhat like peas. They are used like broccoli.
– Flowers and young flower buds – cooked.
– Young shoots – cooked. An asparagus substitute. They should be used when less than 20cm tall.
– Tips of older shoots are cooked like spinach.
– Young seed pods 3 – 4 cm long, cooked. They are very appetizing.
– The sprouted seeds can be eaten.
– An edible oil can be obtained from the seed.
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Parts used for Medicine: Roots (as a decoction, tincture or poultice), The leaves and/or the latex are used in folk remedies for treating cancer and tumours. The milky latex from the stems and leaves is used in the treatment of warts.
Constituents:
– Cardiac glycosides: cardenolide type (afroside, asclepin, asclepiadin, calactin, calotropin, gomphoside, syriogenin, syrioside, uscharidin, uscharin and uzarigenin).
– Flavonoids (kaempferol, quercetin, rutin and isorhamnetin)
– Amino acids (choline)
– Phenolic acids (caffeic & chlorogenic acid)
– Carbohydrates (glucose, fructose and sucrose)
– Triterpenes (a-amyrin and bamyrin, lupeol, friedelin, viburnitol)
– Volatile oil
– Resin
– Latex (isoprene polymers)
– Cardenolides
– Alkaloids
Nutrition:
– Protein (Milkweed seed contains 21% oil and 30% crude protein (dry basis)
– vitamin C
– calcium
– potassium
– silica
– zinc
– iron
Medicinal actions:
– Antispasmodic
– Cardiotonic
– Carminative
– Diaphoretic
– Diuretic
– Laxative
– Expectorant
– Nervine relaxant
– Vasodilator
Pharmacology and Medicinal use:
Phytochemical studies on Asclepias species have identified many cardiac glycoside constituents. A as rule, cardiac glycosides inhibit the sodium potassium pump leading to a rise in intracellular calcium, which increases contractile force and speed of the heart muscle. A positive inotropic action (in vivo and in vitro) has been reported for asclepin, which was found to be more potent, longer acting and with a wider safety margin when compared with other cardiac glycosides (including digoxin). Asclepin was also reported to exhibit a more powerful activity towards weak cardiac muscle.
Has its historical basis in the treatment of pleurisy to relieve the associated pain and ease breathing. The specific indications are shortness of breath, strong pulse, sweating/moist skin, acute pain that is worse with motion, and inflammation and catarrh of serous tissues.
Used primarily in chronic respiratory conditions (e.g. pneumonia, bronchitis), acutely for influenza (earliest stages), and intercostal diseases. Will induce perspiration (diaphoresis) and relieve suppressed expectoration while exerting an antispasmodic effect.
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If you want to learn more about this amazing rooted being and how to incorporate her into your garden, food forest or guerilla gardening activities, check out my article linked below:
https://gavinmounsey.substack.com/p/milkweed-asclepias-syriaca
My local garden center sells at least six varieties of Milkweed seeds. I grow them for their heavenly fragrance nowadays because Monarch butterflies no longer visit my neighborhood. Less than five years ago I had 20 “hatch” in my yard, but no more. 🙁
@jo-ann
I am sorry to hear about the lack of winged visitors in your neck of the woods. I have noticed a drastic drop in butterfly activity locally here in southern Ontario this year as well. I suspect that the drastic increase in BT insecticide usage (in response to the invasion of a boxwood eating caterpillar that is damaging the fancy purely ornamental/ostentatious (useless) hedges of wealthy people in the last year is severely impacting the native butterfly populations (that and all the air planes spraying weird crap and all the artificial EMFs beaming down on us from Elon Musk’s mess of satellites, and about 20 other pressures created by the wonders of modern western civilization).
I am glad to hear you are appreciating the fragrance of the flowers though, our white peonies just bloomed in our front yard and the fragrance is intoxicatingly beautiful.
May many winged beings visit your garden this year despite the onslaught of modern western civilization on the more than human world.
thanks for the comment 🙂
For those still curious (or collecting data) about the World Trade Center properties in New York City, with drawings and photos from 2001 and more recent years:
Reflections on my Visit to the World Trade Centre Site, May 2025
The 9/11 Memorial, evidence that nuclear fission was not involved on “9/11,” the new WTC buildings (or lack of them), Oculus, the Winter Garden, “The Sphere,” toasted cars, WTC-Cortland, and more!
David A. Hughes | Jun 09, 2025
https://dhughes.substack.com/p/reflections-on-my-visit-to-the-world
Concise article about the ongoing saga wrt municipal water fluoridation in USA. Good outline with references of the harms caused by fluoridated drinking water.
How Lobbyists Are Blocking Local Efforts to End Water Fluoridation
Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola | June 09, 2025
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2025/06/09/community-water-fluoridation-opposition.aspx
An excerpt from “No Spiritual Surrender: Indigenous Anarchy in Defense of the Sacred” by Klee Benally (Diné author and activist) offering a unique and illuminating perspective on the UN’s “UNDRIP” and granting rivers, mountains and forests the status of legal personhood.
“THE DEAD END OF UNDRIP AND THE “RIGHTS” OF NATURE
THE STRUGGLE TO PROTECT THE PEAKS AND OTHER SACRED PLACES had become contentious enough that in 2011 the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples recommended that the United States Government engage in a comprehensive review of its relevant policies and actions to ensure that they are in compliance with international standards in relation to the San Francisco Peaks and other Native American sacred sites, and that it take appropriate remedial actions.
When domestic political options have been exhausted Indigenous Peoples have been compelled to seek audience on the international level. On March 2, 2015 the Navajo Nation filed a complaint against the United States with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, alleging violations of the Diné rights to practice our religion and culture regarding desecration of the San Francisco Peaks.
Yet even the lawyer who filed the complaint on the Navajo Nation’s behalf was not very optimistic, “No government ever changes its policy because an international body says to,” stated Robert Williams, who is also professor of law and faculty co-chair of the University of Arizona’s Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy program, “The Navajo know very well that the US doesn’t have to listen to the report, but we hope that it feels obligated to change its conduct.”
Hope is a terrible tactic. (sounds like he was not a fan of “Hopium”)
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In 2007, after decades of advocacy by Indigenous organizers, the United Nations passed the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). Though much fanfare was dedicated to its completion, it stands as a non-binding resolution with no enforcement mechanisms. UNDRIP is merely a symbolic gesture that serves as a signpost declaring “we care” in front of the ecological and social crises that nation-state signatories perpetuate.
In 1999, while on tour with my band in Switzerland, I was asked by Indigenous advocates from the International Indian Treaty Council to testify before the UN General Assembly as they were discussing articles of the initial UNDRIP draft. They quickly briefed me on the topic and I wrote a short state- ment about sacred lands desecration, forced relocation at Big Mountain, and how there is no redress for these grievances in the US. It was an absurd spectacle, hundreds of minor political officials and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) coordinating testimony and pushing for articles they had painstakingly drafted to remain intact. I was standing right behind the US delegation who were shifting uncomfortably as I spoke…
.. Carrying a piece of paper with the UN’s words printed on it doesn’t stop bulldozers, I’ve tried.
I failed to hear the lessons of my elders, that the political concerns of human authority were inconsequential to nature. I had not fully realized their assertions of “no justice on stolen lands.” And so I was disillusioned with the failure of our international efforts, it was clear that we were on our own. Desecration was imminent. Police forces were either constantly surveilling our crew or throwing charges at people. We faced absurdly high bail amounts. We had exhausted all formal “civil” and international options.
After focusing lifetimes on petitioning the UN to pass the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the same Indigenous activists shifted their focus to establish the “legal rights” of nature.
In 2008, politicians in Ecuador wrote into their constitution that the “State shall give incentives to natural persons and legal entities and to communities to protect nature and to promote respect for all the elements comprising an ecosystem.” In 2010, politicians in Bolivia passed a law that designates Mother Earth the character of “a collective subject of public interest.” In 2014, the Te Urewera park in Aotearoa (so-called “New Zealand”) became the first natural feature to be recognized as a “legal person.” In 2016 the Constitutional Court of Colombia found that the Atrato River basin possesses rights to “protection, conservation, maintenance, and restoration.”
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While the question of legal personhood of nature had been entertained since the 1970s, it had not been effectively implemented on such a scale before.
In 2017, New Zealand passed a law granting personhood status to the sacred Whanganui River, which had suffered extreme industrial pollution since the 1800s. Now if threatened, the river can sue. It also means it can own property, enter contracts, and be sued itself. Because natural features cannot represent
themselves in court, a “guardian” is selected that can act on the entity’s behalf to protect it. As of this writing, damages and liabilities have largely been untested.
The obvious question is, “Why impose and extend political way of asking bureaucracies onto the natural world?” Another way of asking this question is, “Why extend colonial systems of authority Mother Earth?” Particularly when the process reifies the material extreme of colonial logic?
This process is the total legal colonization of natural existence. Under this legal doctrine, the Earth is a ward with Indigenous Peoples (or qualifying entities) becoming “natural resource trustees.” This becomes a question of allegiances as the “personhood” or “rights” of nature severs Indigenous allegiance to nature and folds it into a preferenced legal framework of coloniality. To envelope Mother Earth into the legal structures of civilization with the “Rights of Nature” is an act of dominion or domination, it is the apogee of domestication.
The limited practicality of the strategy is to stop corporations from ravaging the land and water, but why double down and entangle the natural world further with colonial legal and economic architectures?
The fallacy of the rights of rivers and nature is one as mundane as the imaginary lines called borders between nations or the fences marking private property. They only exist within the context of the State and require enforcement, which means that the legal “personhood of nature” reinforces State violence. Those wishing to protect nature through laws inadvertently attach the brutality of the enforcement mechanisms of the state. Those champions of the rights of nature also become the State police of the ecosystem.
In confining nature the domain of spirits and ancestry- a legal administrative domain (with the same legal personhood reserved for corporations and ships) is using the master’s tools to reinforce the overall structures of the master’s house (à la Audre Lorde).
The legal objectification of sacred sites is an act of desecra- tion. With impositions of the “Rights of Nature” the sacred is not liberated, it is enclosed as a legal subject within the boundaries of colonial society. It is subordinating the sacred to “rights” to be litigated in the courts of the colonizers. Nature does not exist in accordance to civil authority, so why should it be constrained within its laws?”
– Klee Benally (from “No Spiritual Surrender: Indigenous Anarchy in Defense of the Sacred”)
For those interested in human reproductive health, US Right To Know has issued a summary of a May 2025 review article, which provides references to original research. Although most of the article focuses on damage to female reproductive health, there is mention of impacts to men’s hormone imbalances as well.
Endocrine disruptors impair women’s fertility, may lead to PCOS, major review finds
https://usrtk.org/healthwire/endocrine-disruptors-impair-womens-fertility-pcos/
Excerpt:
“It can take years between chemical exposure and the start of puberty to study its impacts, and human evidence is limited. Yet some patterns indicating reproductive health harms have emerged, the review shows:
* EDCs may act like estrogen or block hormone production, affecting when puberty starts. Higher levels of EDCs have been linked to changes in the brain’s release of gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH), which helps control puberty. For example, BPA exposure in young rats delayed puberty and hindered the maturation of GnRH neurons.
* In girls, early exposure to BPA and DES has been linked to both early and delayed breast development, but consistently delayed menstruation. Phthalates, which block male hormones, have also been linked to delayed puberty.
* Some EDCs may also affect puberty timing by changing how genes turn on and off across generations. In one study, a first generation of rats exposed to a mix of 13 EDCs had a third generation with delayed puberty and altered gene regulation.”
THE REAL REASON for WSJ’s Information War Against UFOs | The Richard Dolan Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VD9Y2QnxH28
The WSJ makes makes bold claims that all UFOs are hoaxes, but does not give supporting evidence.
It also tries to redicule all UFO research.
The WSJ is clearly publishing this article to stop further research into UFOs.
At a time that congress is deciding about supporting such research.
Such research will also reduce interest in the defense industry.
@zyxzevn
The term “Unidentified Flying Object” was and is a manufactured psychological warfare term propagated by entities such as the CIA (in order to obfuscate, distract and confuse) the general population.
In reality, the craft most everyday people are referring to when they use the term “UFO” are neither unidentified nor are they “flying” (and some are not even “objects”).
The newer psyop term “UAP” is just the newest iteration of that Psyop operation.
I did a fair amount of research into the various craft that are referred to by most under the umbrella of “UFOs” and what I found is that the nuance of the multitude of different cultures/ interstellar species and types of craft that are zooming around (along with manmade craft) appearing/disappearing and engaging in other activity up there is lost on most people.
People like clean, neat and tidy (black and white) descriptions of the world around them, yet the reality we live in within this vast universe is much more complex and varied.
Thanks for commenting on the topic.
The more accelerated incompetency (AI) becomes a talking point in the zeitgeist, the more I just point more to Final Fantasy XIII’s fal’Cie and fal’Cie Adam.
I’m just waiting for one of these things to be named Barthandelus at this point.
LEADING THE HORSE TO WATER
Seriously, guys! Stop using big tech solutions for sharing files, online documents, tracking your exercise, backing up photos, and what have you got. If you are reading this, you should be well aware why that is an incredibly stupid idea. Quit supporting Big Tech! There are plenty of open source tools that you can easily set up on your own server. Even if you are not tech savvy.
NEXTCLOUD @ HETZNER
Nextcloud is awesome. And getting your own Nextcloud instance on the net is super simple, and cheap. For example, you can go with Hetzner’s one-click solution: https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share/.
What is Nextcloud? Well, sort of like your own Google Drive, or your own Dropbox. Check it out at https://nextcloud.com/. And, with your own Nextcloud server, you can easily install different apps. Check out the list of apps at https://apps.nextcloud.com/. Personally, I have my Calendar (https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/calendar) on my own Nextcloud server. I have my video conferencing tool (https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/spreed), it is where I aggregate my RSS feeds (https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/news), it is where I store my contacts that are synced in between all my devices (https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/contacts), it is where I take and store notes along the way on my phone and PC (https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/notes), it is my alternative to Google Maps (https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/maps), it is where I share photos with friends and family (https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/memories), it is where I manage the podcasts I listen to via Antennapod (https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/repod). It is where I sync my files in between my different computers (https://nextcloud.com/install/#desktop-files). And so on…
YUNOHOST
Another even more feature rich solution is setting up your own online server, virtual machine (like https://www.digitalocean.com/products/droplets or https://www.hetzner.com/cloud/), and install Yunohost. Installing Yunohost is a very simple process (https://doc.yunohost.org/admin/install/install_on/remote_server). Yunohost is a server application where you, with a few clicks, can set up your own open source tools/apps on your own server. Check it out at https://yunohost.org/.
The amount of apps you can install using Yunohost is massive, and rapidly growing. Take a look at https://apps.yunohost.org/catalog. On my Yunohost server I, have my own activity tracking solution (https://apps.yunohost.org/app/fittrackee), I have my own search engine (https://apps.yunohost.org/app/searxng), I have my own email server and mail client (https://apps.yunohost.org/app/cypht), it is where I archive websites (https://apps.yunohost.org/app/archivebox), it is where I store my receipts (https://apps.yunohost.org/app/paperless-ngx), and more.
Now, that is water for you. Will you drink it?
I just discovered this concept:
PERMACOMPUTING
Permacomputing is both a concept and a community of practice oriented around issues of resilience and regenerativity in computer and network technology inspired by permaculture. ପໄଓ☾☼✫ -☆:*´
There are huge environmental and societal issues in today’s computing, and permacomputing specifically wants to challenge them in the same way as permaculture has challenged industrial agriculture. With that said, permacomputing is an anti-capitalist political project. It is driven by several strands of anarchism, decoloniality, intersectional feminism, post-marxism, degrowth, ecologism.
Permacomputing is also a utopian ideal that needs a lot of rethinking, rebuilding and technical design work to put in practice. This is why a lot of material on this wiki is highly technical.
Most importantly, there is no permacomputing kit to buy. See permacomputing as invitation to collectively and radically rethink computational culture. It is not a tech solution searching for a problem. You are free to start your own initiative and use the term permacomputing, however please make sure you understand the purpose and ethos of this project : )
https://permacomputing.net/
People just need to learn to build their own stuff, make their own networks and reuse and recycle old hardware.
I must say the intro does not fill me with hope though
“….With that said, permacomputing is an anti-capitalist political project….”
Planned economies cant build personal computers well- much as I hate to say it the only reason the Internet exists is because capitalism made it happen. The only reason we have personal computers is because capitalism made it so….the Soviets did try to build an IntraNet for industrial control but it was trash and failed and their computers sucked and lagged behind the west because (even if I don’t like it) capitalism delivers better services and goods.
“….. It is driven by several strands of anarchism, decoloniality, intersectional feminism, ….”
Yeah, plenty of freaks are getting into open source and tech, sadly.
“…..post-marxism, degrowth, ecologism…..”
Computers are inherently destructive to the environment in some way- they produce a lot of nasty pollutants in their production and suck up vast amounts of lithium and stuff like coltan which is inherently destructive ti the environment (and in coltans case extraction is done by slaves or near slaves)
I’ll take a longer look at their page.
… a more sustainable approach, maximizing hardware lifespans, minimizing energy use …
Thise are not bad things but anyone who prefaces reuse and efficiency with “intersectionality/feminism/anti-conlinialism/nei-marxism” is probably one or both of
A) An idiot who is focused on politics rather then tech
B) A person who is going to turn anything they touch into crap
C) A dangerous nutter
Single board computers? I was using them as a desktop years ago.
Linux to recycle old hardware and make it like new? That too
Building or fixing your own computer systems and networks? Done that too.
If i start telling you that thise things have anything to do with any kind of political outlook you will know I’m a liar and trying to trick you…
..but again, nothing wrong with taking control of your own computing ( it’s VERY important) and YouTube has a lot of tutorials on doing all thise things, Bryan Lunduke had a lot of tutorials on stuff like that too as did “switched to Linux” and others who give detailed tutorials on plenty of things without weirdo politics
Greetings everyone,
I have been reading James’ book, Reportage, and have got a topic I would like to have you comment.
On the Chapter “They don’t want your genes in the pool” I have had a few doubts as to how the “Eugenics” movement of today works.
In this chapter we find quotes such as “would weed out the “inferior” races, identified as “those swarms of black, and brown, and dirty white, and yellow people (…)” [from H.G. Wells] & concerning Gustav Boeters, quoting the book: “when he learned of compulsory sterilizations and restrictions on mixed-race marriages”.
I am sure the research from James was well done (as usual). But I wonder how dangerous/efficacious these eugenicists were, or are due to the following:
Contrasting the quotes above to today:
– populations of the above quoted “races” are on the obvious rise, whereas the vast majority of the visibly declining populations are those of the “allegedly” superior races (inferring from the Eugenicists’ quotes)
– mixed race couples on previously “caucasian” majority places are on the obvious rise too; not to mention couples between non-caucasian races in those same places.
Which leads me to wonder the following:
A) are these eugenicists or crypto-eugenicists actually a threat? Since their goals have so blatantly failed, what threat do they pose?
B) have they changed course in their insidious plans (then and now) and opted to focus on other goals? Hence the results are so distinct from these earlier quotes.
The chapter is relevant in showing a history of torment and actual murder towards some people imposed by an entitled few. The victims should be mourned and not forgotten!
But in the grand scheme of things it seems to me to show how they are so inefficient, incompetent and not threatening to the overall world – at least in this field of activity. What is your opinion? Am I missing something?
Francis
I can give you MY opinion for what it’s worth – the Eugenic crowd in England were all upper class Brit’s who are almost another ethnic group to the working class Brit’s. Thats very true if the UK and ti a lesser extent European aristocracy felt the same way….They honestly did not care all that much about black or white (the icky French- Japanese guy Kalergi even went so far as to dream of a Europe where the serf class of mixed euros and Africans served his kind)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalergi_Plan
Haha they say it’s “out of context” hahaha,
Anyway as far as I can seee the eugenics thing is more about CLASS then race, and since they see non whites as easier to rule over replacement is pushed for by some of them. The ruling class needs some peasants to do the work, lol, but doesn’t want them to be rivals so wishes to dumb them down a bit.
A non eugenics factor is that the Jews in the USA have been wanting to fragment the homogeneous societies at least since WW2 since mixed societies are less threatening to them as a minority, the left wing Jews have been able to exert a lot of power since I think the 70s and have been pushing for open migration since before that.
I think “real” eugenics kinda ended up on a back burner and the rulers have just been focusing on population reduction and the left Jews have been focusing on bringing in foreigners…..
Real eugenics is probably not a massive threat if it’s limited to promoting more good breeding rather then on killing people off, but the current eugenics is like I said more about power and killing people IMO…..all in all it won’t matter too much since most homogeneous white areas if the world are too far gone and the new comers are not nearly as biddable or productive as the ruling class hoped (hence their hope that AI can replace us, which it probably won’t) so the economy will simplify itself and eugenics will again be natural as the unhealthy die off from poverty.
That’s what I think will happen, not what I wish or dream about happening
Right, so it is a similar opinion to mine. The only thing I would add is that the massive importation of peoples with low standards of living will:
– further reduce the previously high standards of living in those places
– accustom the overall population of those places to low wages that never increase and to more pressure from inflation
– globalize the world into a bunch of classes with the massively rich untouchable at the top, while the lower classes bicker over their meagre pieces of the pie
The sad thing is that the source countries are irredeemably condemned to poverty (made by those very same elites). And it seems escaping them is the only way out for those people!
I.e., only once the world becomes united in poverty will the issue be settled. And then the super-rich will have been victorious, anyway.
Could I ask you for a source on the left Jews seeking to bring more foreigners? It is nothing surprising, but I would love to read something concrete (like the Kalergi clown, of whom I knew already).
Francis
“…. Could I ask you for a source on the left Jews seeking to bring more foreigners….”
I’m away from the pond right now but offhand I’d suggest (as always) EM Jones work- slaughter of cities or his massive overview “Jewish revolutionary spirit” , either will have some good stuff.
You could also look into the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, which even Wikipedia says
“….. In 1958, Senator John F. Kennedy or his team penned a pamphlet titled A Nation of Immigrants, opposing the immigration quotas set forth in the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, >>>>>>>after being convinced to do so by the Anti-Defamation League……”
You can also look into whi is finding the groups bringing and settling the new comers- out here I can’t go thru my stuff and web search is not what it used to be , esp on a tiny screen.
There are of course the “gotcha” meme things like Barbra learner specter or that ADL guy whi keeps a chart of white population decline on his office wall- their good to get the point across but not detailed.
https://archive.org/details/EuropeWillNotSurvive
Or you could look into Kevin Macdonalds stuff (culture of critique is pretty good) for background.
Thank you for the suggestions! I knew about the Barbra Lerner Spectre (once again, the pseudonyms these folks choose are *always* spot-on).
Regardless, could I still press you into helping me:
– give a starting point on finding the funding NGOs of the migrant movements? I always find Soros and the like, but I was hoping to find something more concrete and less “bling-bling”
– find the source for the ADL guy with the “white” decline chart? Couldn’t find anything at all!
I understand I might be a nuisance at this point. If so, please let me know and I will be off. Your suggestions helped already :)!
Francis
If your interested two VERY good books are by Scott Howard (they are NOT available on Amazon, you should either steel them off Anna’s archive or buy them from antelope hill publishing)
https://antelopehillpublishing.com/product/the-scott-howard-collection/
The guy writes very detailed books, I’d say TGIC is the best at following the money buy OSPB is what you are probably after. The guy is one of the very few people I’d put in par with Mr Corbett for detailed work.
You might also Try looking at the donor page for these guys
https://hias.org/
Or (((catholic))) charities (lol)
As to the chart of non Hispanic white population decline –
I made a mistake it’s the SPLC Jewish chap Mark Potok – you can probably Google the pic yourself (make sure it’s the real one) or look up the thread of (ugh) Reddit for some leads to follow. I don’t trust redditors for much but leads since they tend to be liars but Dr EM Jones discussed that very picture a few years back (sorry I can’t recall which podcast). His work is over at fidelity press or https://culturewars.com/
He has a real world magazine (e copy available) and posts extracts on his site worth reading too.
No worries, not a nuisance , I am taking a break right now 🙂 all the best
Francis
My reply is stuck in moderation (my fault I forgot too many links do that) but I recalled Mr Corbett did a thing about SPLC back in 2010
https://corbettreport.com/episode-132-meet-the-southern-poverty-law-center/
He even discussed that Jewish fellow Mark Potok whi keeps that chart of the decline of white population on his wall
I returned from holiday and had little time to investigate all the material you had submitted.
I am very grateful for all you have sent – will attempt going through it.
Many, many thanks for your suggestions!
I would consider degradation of the food, water, air, standard medical care, public education, and readily available illicit drugs, etc. to be in alignment with the mission of contemporary eugenicists.
But that would be more of a class/economic struggle rather than racial/genetic, right? In other words, not so much eugenics but rather globalist leadership vs globalist peasantry, right?
From Wikipedia, “Historically, eugenicists have attempted to alter the frequency of various human phenotypes by inhibiting the fertility of those considered inferior, or promoting that of those considered superior.” So anything that reduces reproduction of the general population could be included, in my opinion.
I Can Spot AI Writing Instantly — Here’s How You Can Too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ch4a6ffPZY
Tips to spot AI texts.
@zyxzevn
I appreciate you sharing, though sadly, it seems like more and more people are proud that they are using AI to do all their writing for them and they wear it like a badge of honor.
I just unsubscribed to this lady as she has chatbots telling people what to eat and how to preserve their food.
https://denutrients.substack.com/p/golden-oyster-mushrooms
(that Deepseek chatbot she has regurgitating electronic hallucinations as well as vague (and insincerely cheerful) mushroom explanations sure likes it’s group of three lists, emojis and em dashes 😉 )
For those following the case against journalist Richard D. Hall about the alleged attack at the Manchester Arena:
Interview with Paul Hellier and Iain Davis, June 4, 2025 | 3:09:37
A Critical Dissection of the Manchester Arena Incident
David A. Hughes | Jun 14, 2025
https://dhughes.substack.com/p/interview-with-paul-hellier-and-iain
Why the News Promotes Ignorance and Mental Illness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cPis8APuis
With great quotes like:
“..it’s a serious mistake to think we need an opinion about everything.
Ninety percent of our opinions are superfluous.
Yet the news is constantly urging us to form opinions.
This robs us of concentration and inner peace.”
Excellent summary of mass manipulation – worth sharing.
Welcome to PSYOP Season
They Gave You a Script. You Called It Conviction.
Joshua Stylman | Jun 16, 2025
https://stylman.substack.com/p/welcome-to-psyop-season
Excerpt:
“You don’t just get manipulated into outrage — you get monitored once you’re activated.
“Palantir — the company building surveillance systems for ICE, police departments, and battlefields — just embedded its CTO into the U.S. Army Reserve as a lieutenant colonel. Meta and OpenAI executives joined the same program. Tech oligarchs now wear military uniforms.”
More on the tech oligarchs wearing military uniforms…
Pentagon Enlists Technocratic Executives To Reshape The Future Of US Military Technology
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2025-06-15/pentagon-enlists-technocratic-executives-reshape-future-us-military-technology
Excerpt (first paragraph):
“Friday the 13th was an apropos date for the Pentagon to take the next step forward on its march leading the United States further down a path toward becoming a technocratic hellscape. The US Army swore in 4 different executives from major technology companies as part of its newly established Detachment 201: The Executive Innovation Corps. The executives sworn in as lieutenant colonels in the US Army Reserve were Shyam Sankar, Palantir Technologies’ chief technology officer; Andrew Bosworth, chief technology officer of Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta; Kevin Weil, OpenAI’s chief product officer; and Bob McGrew, an advisor at Thinking Machines Lab, who previously served as the former chief research officer for OpenAI. The mission of Detachment 201 is to accelerate the modernization of military technology by embedding senior tech executives into the military as uniformed officers. However, the ties those executives have amplify concerns about the exponential growth of technocratic influence over the US government.”
Discussing the Covid Dossier in detail with Cornelia Mrose and Debbie Lerman
This is a deeper dive into the Dossier, with focus on Colonel Birx and other important characters. We cover several countries in EU as well. Don’t miss this discussion!
Sasha Latypova | Jun 16, 2025
“[Colonel Deborah] Birx is a board member of Palantir, together with General Gustav Perna of Operation Warp Speed (wow, what a coincidence!). Palantir is a private military data/AI platform at the heart of the totalitarian octopus that is going to suck all of our data into the digital control grid designed to enslave the survivors of the covid democide. ”
https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/discussing-the-covid-dossier-in-detai
A couple of posts that highlight some current weaknesses of AI and the problems that can ensue:
US & UK Govt officials are letting AI do their jobs – Badly
https://principia-scientific.com/us-uk-govt-officials-are-letting-ai-do-their-jobs-badly-2/
OpenAI and DeepSeek ‘collapse’ when problems get too difficult
https://principia-scientific.com/openai-and-deepseek-collapse-when-problems-get-too-difficult/
For those collecting evidence about the faked manned moon missions:
Bart Sibrel presents evidence claiming NASA faked the moon landings
https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-02-09-sibrel-presents-evidence-nasa-faked-moon-landing.html
Bart Sibrel has authored a 2021 book, “Moon Man: The True Story of a Filmmaker on the CIA Hit List,” ISBN13: 9781513686561. $19.99 on thriftbooks.com:
https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/moon-man-the-true-story-of-a-filmmaker-on-the-cia-hit-list_bart-sibrel/38423304/#edition=61051719&idiq=47672542
“You WONT BELIEVE this INCREDIBLE announcement from #JohnnyYouTuber !!1”
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/uL4NFvLVsjo
“Are you a total idiot with the attention span of a Goldfish!? Well you are in the right place! YouTuuuuuuube!” hahah 🙂
I think Alphabet Corp’s AI bots may be hitting back a bit on that satire too as the AI transcription/captions of the words James is saying says “Corporate Report” instead of Corbett Report.
It’s exactly because of videos (shorts) like these autoreplay is a thing. A must, even. Could this be the first CR 4K content? Ridiculous.
I guess the next step for Corporate Report is to start selling used cars. James has the expression style pegged. This commercial can use a revamp.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQVhb4DxHnw
@mkey
Ya that autoplay thing is really annoying man, it makes me dislike being around people that endlessly scroll through Instagram feeds and you keep hearing the same garbage audio replaying over and over.
Yes, Johnny Youtuber can sell used (and heavily reverbished) Tesla cars (after they are recovered from the pile ups they caused). 😉
https://corbettreport.com/interview-1778-johnny-youtuber-defends-elon-musk/
Some First Nation Chiefs are taking on the role of Land Defenders and are Resisting the ongoing (and intended) statist imperialistic colonial pillaging of the Earth (for lithium) in the Boreal Forest :
https://thenarwhal.ca/first-nation-burns-ring-of-fire-files/
Doug Ford, Carney and their puppet masters in the Oligarchy want to carve the lithium out of the bones of the Earth for their “Sustainable Development” control grid and racketeering operations, but the original inhabitants of the land here are not all willing to stand by and allow this pillaging of the Earth to go forward.
As I stated in past posts, hard rock lithium mining involves deforestation, draining lakes and rivers, blowing the land into pieces with explosives, carving deep gashes into the Earth with giant machines, using truckloads of industrial solvents like sulfuric acid (resulting in water contamination with toxic sludge) dragging that processed rubble to processing facilities with fleets of heavy machinery then processing the ore with extremely high energy furnaces using another slew of toxic chemicals (which further contaminate the water table, lakes, rivers and ocean elsewhere).
In the first wave of colonialism, the statists used (biological warfare) small pox blankets, Food as a weapon (killing all the buffalo), muskets, cannons and chemical warfare (alcohol). This next wave of “green” colonialism instead weaponizes viruses of the mind (gaslighting, propaganda, bribes) armies of lawyers and only resorts to using the oppressive jackboots and kinetic weapons of war (currently expressed in the militarized RCMP unit called the “C-IRG”) when all else fails (as they do not want the bad press).
Statist regimes (such as the government of “Canada”) profess how dedicated they are to “truth and reconciliation” while simultaneously pushing to displace northern indigenous communities and poison their sacred waters in the name of profit. The statist parasites have changed their racketeering tactics and despite them now avoiding outright mass murdering villages to get at resources (as they are ostensibly “playing nice” for PR optics), I would still say that they are more duplicitous, pernicious and nefarious than ever before.
All the inhabitants of Turtle Island that wish to give a future worth living in to future generations should be standing in solidarity with those that are wise and courageous enough to protect the Boreal Forests and Great Lakes against the devastation and poisoning that the planned open pit lithium mines would cause.
I am grateful that there are still some communities left in this land that truly live by the 7th generation principle their ancestors introduced as a cultural/ethical compass.
Mounsey Minute Episode 18: The Secret Treasure of Serviceberries
https://gavinmounsey.substack.com/p/mounsey-minute-episode-18-the-secret
This post shares a video slide show with this month’s Media Monarchy broadcast that featured “The Secret Treasure of Serviceberries” as the topic for June, 2025.
PS – Who ever commented in the Media Monarchy Chat (JEP read out the comment) regarding James and Cassie’s idea to maybe to create a downloadable Mounsey Minute Anthology and you suggested “putting it on a flash drive in a Faraday Cage” I like how you think! 😉
I actually have several flash drives filled with both James` material in one myself!
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For those that do not know why doing some thing like that might be a good idea, read this:
https://gavinmounsey.substack.com/p/preparing-for-the-100-year-storms
You can listen to the Full MorningMonarchy Episode that contains the above audio segment (with the song afterward) here:
https://mediamonarchy.com/20250611morningmonarchy/
#MounseyMinute Posts on Media Monarchy:
https://mediamonarchy.com/tag/mounsey-minute/
Something developing… and worth keeping an eye on.
Palestinification of Paterson, New Jersey: America’s First City to Be Conquered—From Islamizing Government, Schools, and Streets to Subverting U.S. Election Law
https://rairfoundation.com/palestinification-paterson-new-jersey-americas-first-city-be/
Excerpts:
“Paterson now stands as a test case for municipal-level foreign alignment, potentially setting a precedent for other U.S. cities with large Islamic or Palestinian populations. Local governments could replicate the model: using taxpayer-funded platforms, city resources, and elected offices to institutionalize anti-American and anti-Israel ideologies under the protection of “diversity” and “inclusion.””
“What you’re seeing in Paterson isn’t a coincidence. It’s the Memorandum in motion. In 1991, the Muslim Brotherhood detailed its plan to “destroy Western civilization from within” using front groups, civil institutions, and ideological warfare. Paterson is now a live test site. If Americans don’t recognize this sabotage, executed through mosques, nonprofits, and city hall, then the Brotherhood’s plan isn’t just working; it’s winning.”
Related post with video:
Islamized New York….
https://x.com/AmyMek/status/1934510349446947233
Excerpt:
“MAS [Muslim American Society] Staten Island just bragged that “Muslims around New York City came together to celebrate, pray, and share the joy of Eid.” What they didn’t say is that 5,000+ ideological “foot soldiers for Allah” staged a public show of Islamic dominance in one of NYC’s most iconic public parks, with no pushback from officials.
“The pattern is clear: a global, coordinated, and unapologetic expansion of religious and political influence.”
Some good news for a change! The local government wants to take this family farm to create low income housing. The fight is not over, but at least USDA is helping to save the farm.
Trump admin to intervene on behalf of New Jersey family trying to stop government seizure of 175-year-old farm
https://www.conservativereview.com/trump-admin-to-intervene-on-behalf-of-new-jersey-family-trying-to-stop-government-seizure-of-175-year-old-farm-2672405027.html
Excerpt:
“Whether the Maudes, the Henrys or others whom we will soon announce, the Biden-style government takeover of our family farms is over,” she added. “While this particular case is a city eminent domain issue, we @usda are exploring every legal option to help.”
Andy Henry says he has received many multimillion-dollar offers for the farm, but he has denied all of them.
“Didn’t matter how much money we were offered,” Henry said. “We saved the farm no matter what. We turned down all the offers to preserve the legacy for our family, city, and even state.”
Folks might want to give up eggs, poultry, beef, and dairy products sourced in the USA. Besides the mRNA jabs for alleged control H5N2 bird flu, the supposed climate-saving Bovaer product has been approved for use in the USA.
NIH, USDA Develop mRNA Bird Flu Vaccine for Cows—Led by Pfizer-Linked Patent Holders: ‘bioRxiv’ Study
Study ignores safety, tissue spread, and food chain risks.
Jon Fleetwood | Jun 23, 2025
https://jonfleetwood.substack.com/p/nih-usda-develop-mrna-bird-flu-vaccine
Jo Ann
Pretty much everyone in the US is going to be stuck eating factory farm slop unless they get chickens of their own…..you can get into a food club for meat and such and maybe get your own little goat for milk…..but at the end of the day your probably still better off eating slop meat (as long as it’s cuts not processed overmuch) then foregoing animal fats entirely.
Part of the message they want to get across is to stop eating animal fats because , for most people, the results are weakness and hormone imbalance. I’m sure the attack comes from both sides TBH
Fun times for Canada!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6gwBe4rn4E
Update on old story about the grid going down in parts of Europe in April:
Solar Power to Blame for Spain’s Disastrous Blackout, Official Investigation Finds
https://principia-scientific.com/solar-power-to-blame-for-spains-disastrous-blackout-official-investigation-finds/
Excerpt:
“A Government report into Europe’s biggest power cut found that Spain’s solar farms were generating so much power on April 28th, a particularly sunny day, that prices became “negative” – meaning there were no profits to be made in operating them.
“Plunging prices triggered a mass switch-off, which sent voltage and frequency fluctuations cascading across the national grids of both Spain and Portugal. Back-up systems meant to guard against such fluctuations were not in effect.
“This caused blackouts that left more than 60 million people across the Iberian peninsula without power, the Spanish Government report concluded.”
Hey there Corbett fans.
In case being at the forefront of climate science (and particularly in countering AGW religion) is still one of the Corbett Report’s priorities, I cannot stress enough how important it would be to have a certain Ned Nikolov on for an interview. Though I am no scientist, I am deeply convinced that his ground-breaking work, that goes so far as to render any “green-house gas theory” irrelevant with regards to climate science, will one day become the prevailing paradigm for understanding climate dynamics. Judge for yourself:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1GgmBIew9Y&t=2975s
Thanks for your attention, take care and be well.
Jesus, this is thick. Just tell me what to think!
As far as I could glean with my characteristic English teacher’s scientific expertise (NOT!), you could boil it down to his suggested bumper sticker:
“It’s the cloud albedo and air pressure, stupid! Not CO2!”
With special attention to AIR PRESSURE as this is the novel outstanding proposition.
…which would seem obvious in retrospect when considering the temperature of an atmosphere! and yet…
He thoroughly demonstrates his hypothesis (created with his colleague Karl Zeller) and its accuracy not only when applied to reconstructing historical climate conditions (all the while pointing out the egregious absurdities and contradictions in the fundamental calculations in greenhouse gas theory and their failure to reconstruct these conditions) but he also applies it to other rocky planets and moons in the solar system to near perfection.
Mkey,
What ? Are you still in diapers? You get hold ah-dat-thang and we all will lift together. However,
If No-Soa-PRADIO is convinced then all the heavy lifting has been done . It’s now up to James Corbett.
Talk about pressure and pleasure to be heard from . Talk about the mountain and Mohammed , that nimble little minx’s intelligence spreads over 3 continents and 12 time zones. It must be important. I kid you not.
This is thinner! Much thinner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWFXFZCN100
Thank you so much for sharing! This is a wonderful presentation. Good to know there are some competent, independent scientists working on providing a theory strong enough to trash the greenhouse gas theory, which doesn’t account for clouds whatsoever. Loved the discussion at the end too, especially the “consensus science” story.
Thanks for taking the time to watch it jo-ann and for having said so. He doesn’t mince words. I think he’s on to some paradigm-changing climate science. Just thought Corbett Report people would, at best, want to watch up close or participate in landmark events in climate science history and at least, support both the real contributions to understanding climate history and the stigmatized, suppressed scientists who make these contributions. Thanks again.
This is a decent addition to the topic. There are also some interesting interviews with this fella, Ken Peterson.
What Does It Cost? The Consequences of the Net Zero Energy Agenda
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1FGql4hD4Y
Lawmakers in Oregon and Washington State have passed ambitious legislation to combat climate change, aiming to eliminate fossil fuels and rely solely on zero-emission electricity sources, such as solar and wind, by 2040 and 2045, respectively.
In this documentary, Ken Peterson explores the devastating economic consequences of this legislation. He explains that electricity prices will increase to exorbitant rates, that the demand for electricity will exceed the abilities of the electrical grid, and that the resulting decrease in global temperature would only be 0.003 ⁰C.
“What Does It Cost?” draws heavily from a report by Jonathan Lesser and Mitch Rolling, which you can review here:
https://www.discovery.org/m/securepdfs/2024/09/Crippling-Costs-of-Electrification-20240918.pdf
SPOILER: the calculated cost of “absolute zero”, for the two US states and without inflation comes up to 200k per average household.
For those who are curious about how we got where we are today and wonder what knowledge has been hidden from us, here is a resource – a collection of over 500 old books, articles, and papers that have been categorized according to topic and made available in PDF format. I recommend downloading anything you might want to preserve in case the internet as we know it gets wiped… A true work of love from Charlotte Thompson Iserbyt (d.2022) and her supporters.
https://americandeception.com/ad/
Also be sure to check out the sister web page linked at the bottom of the above web site.
It has been many weeks since I have seen a post from our songwriter and freedom-loving friend Mr. AJDOYLE. His last post on BitChute was March 21, 2025, “Take a Trip [Life]”:
https://old.bitchute.com/video/OQXKspX7GkMt/
More really bad ideas from RFK Jr’s HHS:
MAHA, Wearables and the War for Embodied Consciousness
How “Health Freedom” Now Embraces Digital Surveillance
Joshua Stylman | Jun 26, 2025
https://stylman.substack.com/p/maha-wearables-and-the-war-for-embodied
Excerpt:
“Your wearable doesn’t just monitor your health – it creates a permanent legal record that can be subpoenaed and used in divorce proceedings, employment disputes, or criminal cases. Poor sleep patterns could suggest substance abuse. Irregular heart rhythms might indicate lying. Stress spikes could correlate with “behavioral problems.”
“Analysts say platforms processing wearable data – including surveillance firms like Palantir – conceptualize it as a form of continuous emotional telemetry, designing systems that build predictive vectors off every pulse to anticipate emotional states—or even protest—before action occurs.”
One of the Comments [from reader whose initials are J.V.] under the above Substack article got me thinking it’s time to read the book he cites.
Comment quoted in full, emphasis added):
As this next phase of Technocracy Inc. is rolled out I’m reminded of a very creepy book I read many years ago, “A Brief History of the Future” by Jacques Attali (2006).
Attali presented this bleak future of biometric surveillance as “Inevitable” (of course…). He speculated the terms and conditions of this open-air prison will present stark choices, such as (to paraphrase) “Submit to biometric surveillance or be denied health insurance.” Period.
I have a speculation of my own. The next “pandemic” will make these devices mandatory, ubiquitous and, eventually, routinized. Some of us oldsters will resist, but of course as you suggest the real targets are children who will never know anything better.
The BRICS’ alternative to the WEF: The St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF 2025).
SPIEF 2025: Russia strengthens leadership in building a new multipolar economic order
Lucas Leiroz | June 25, 2025
https://strategic-culture.su/news/2025/06/25/spief-2025-russia-strengthens-leadership-in-building-a-new-multipolar-economic-order/
Excerpt:
“The forum’s high point came during the plenary session with Russian President Vladimir Putin. In his keynote address, Putin emphasized Russia’s progress in high-tech sectors, advocated for the expansion of BRICS+, and outlined the construction of a new global economic architecture based on sovereignty and justice. Dedollarization was a major topic, with a strong emphasis on adopting national currencies and developing alternative financial systems to escape U.S.-controlled structures and dollar dependency. Putin was unequivocal: the new world order will be built by those who reject hegemonic domination and promote mutually beneficial cooperation.
“The conclusion of SPIEF 2025 left no doubt: Russia is far from isolated – it stands at the heart of global transformation. As the G7 becomes increasingly irrelevant, trapped in a decaying model, SPIEF represents the spirit of a new era – an era of sovereignty, multipolarity, and dignity. Russia offers not just economic partnerships but a new civilizational horizon for the peoples of the world.”
Hopium? Whatever – I found this article spiritually uplifting, much like James writes.
Our Knowledge System Has Collapsed. Can We Survive Without It?
Even as tech gets degraded, people will still need something solid and reliable that will contribute to human flourishing. In fact, they will need that more than ever.
Ted Gioia | 06.10.25
https://www.thefp.com/p/the-knowledge-system-collapse?hide_intro_popup=true
Excerpt:
“The knowledge structure that has dominated everything for our entire lifetime—and for our parents and grandparents—is collapsing. And it’s taking place everywhere, all at once. If this were just an isolated situation—a problem in universities, or media, or politics—the current hierarchy could possibly survive. But that isn’t the case. The crisis has spread into every sector of society that relies on clear knowledge and respected authority.”
Not sure if Internet of Bodies (IoB) has been a discussion topic recently, but in light of the recent NIH Sec. stating that every American will be wearing a medical “wearable” within the next four years, I thought this might be relevant:
C-IoB – Center for Internet of Bodies
Where Connectivity, Security, and Intelligence Meets Human Body to Transform Lives
https://engineering.purdue.edu/C-IoB
Excerpt from landing page (emphasis added):
“A subset of IoT, the IoB represents the network of tiny devices on, around or in the human body comprising of function like sensing, analytics, communication, actuation, powering and harvesting. These nodes range from connected health care devices such as continuous glucose monitors (CGM), connected pacemakers, ingestible pills to consumer electronics devices such as smartwatches, wireless earpods, AR/VR headsets to name a few.
“While IoB devices will ride on the existing and future IoT revolution, they will also have their unique properties and requirements for seamless integration of Human-Electronics Augmentation and Co-Operation, such as existence of body medium that can be leveraged for communication, safety and security requirements since body being involved e.g. medical devices, AI/ML has to focus on new dataset, partial/full inference on body-worn devices, distributed computing around the body, one-hub multi-sensor distributed on-body network, multi-human network, distributed intelligence including in-sensor and on-hub analytics, and extreme size, power, and latency constraints, towards battery-free, body-powered electronics.”
Who is James Corbett?
Some interesting facts from the editor- en-chief his self. Interview with Drew Media.
https://youtu.be/h_Rk0p5YCW4
Not on TheCorporateReport.com or The Corbett Report.
Today shows there have been 57 views.
Esplain it to me big guy? You sure get around.
https://corbettreport.com/interview-1565-james-corbett-in-democracy-down/
I think they met before…. But I don’t recall the guy so maybe it’s upcoming
Time to ramp up the UFO narrative again…
Alien Tech? Mysterious UFO Orb Sparks Global Panic – US Congressman Speaks Out | Redacted News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FKtPxaPdfA
Description: “Late one afternoon near Buga, Colombia, people noticed this strange sphere flying through the sky… a treasure hunter José Restrepo was simply metal‑detecting when that same sphere plummeted from the sky, sparking a power line and landing at his feet.”
This ought to be stopped right now, but it won’t. Wonder how long before we have synthetic people or perhaps just their organs?
New project to pioneer the principles of human genome synthesis
An ambitious Wellcome-funded project is aiming to develop the tool needed to synthesise human genomes
26 June 2025
https://wellcome.org/news/new-project-pioneer-principles-human-genome-synthesis
Excerpt:
“An ambitious new research project, SynHG (Synthetic Human Genome), is aiming to develop the foundational and scalable tools, technology and methods needed to synthesise human genomes. Through programmable synthesis of genetic material we will unlock a deeper understanding of life, leading to profound impacts on biotechnology, potentially accelerating the development of safe, targeted, cell-based therapies, and opening entire new fields of research in human health. Achieving reliable genome design and synthesis – i.e. engineering cells to have specific functions – will be a major milestone in modern biology.”
Just for Fun – Gorilla Science. Short, fun videos suitable for all ages, primarily explaining climate science. Created by Martin Durkin and Tom Nelson. Some episodes feature Dr. Willie Soon.
Share far and wide to help destroy the current CO2 climate change narrative.
GorillaScience
Free speech, free thought, free science
Info: https://tomn.substack.com/p/new-gorilla-science
Videos: https://rumble.com/user/GorillaScience
Music suggestion for strength and fortitude:
Dax – “God’s Eyes” Remix (Feat. Phix, Carly Pearl, Brutha Rick, P!X!E, Jerome Dillard, & MORE]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQYz55069vQ&list=RDtQYz55069vQ&start_radio=1
Some of these artists, who, through discipline and masterful leveraging of their talent, managed to grow quite large without signing their soul over to a record label, do make the light peering through holes in our supposed reality a lot brighter, don’t they?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZGTYMzlwC4
Excellent, 1-take, 20-minute rap! WOW! Thanks for sharing the link.
Judge finds that training LLMs on books presents fair use due to it being transformative “transformative” since “it maps statistical relationships to produce technology that produces new, noninfringing outputs”
https://chatgptiseatingtheworld.com/2025/06/26/12026/
Likely a better article to get up to speed on the matter.
https://chatgptiseatingtheworld.com/2025/06/24/more-on-judge-alsups-solomonic-decision-finding-fair-use-and-infringement-in-bartz-v-anthropic/
Mkey,
Very Interesting!
So , as the scripts and original books Are copyrighted, they have one common theme with the fair use Ai fraudulently held in storage. Content predominantly is the domestic variety. We no longer have an foreign enemy without , but the resident enemy within. Ai seems to be concentrating that internally while externally plagiarizing every creative idea. It possesses no moral guidance for property. How very rude and woke but of course a Solomon like judge leaves the door ajar for judicial leakage.
Thanks, will go read article is a sec.
Bryan Lunduke talked about Google books a ways back and noted that Google scanned library’s of books (some of which probably no person still living has read) in university libraries and when they were told copyright ment they couldn’t put them in the open web they kept them.
He said they had them all stored “somewhere” so I expect they fed those to the AI.
Why I Still Do Not Celebrate Canada Day
https://gavinmounsey.substack.com/p/why-i-still-do-not-celebrate-canada
This post endeavors to further deconstruct and illuminate the true nature of the religion of Statism
What’s going on in our supermarkets, besides security cameras and perhaps cell phone detection? In England there is more going on than I suspected, and plans to modify consumer purchases. They aim to reduce the calorie total of each basket by 100 calories. (Reduce it from what – people don’t buy the same things every week? One easy way would be to put less food in each package, though the article doesn’t mention that strategy.)
UK government to announce supermarkets will police what is in your shopping trolley and limit purchases of “unhealthy” food
https://expose-news.com/2025/06/30/uk-supermarkets-will-police-your-shopping/
Excerpt:
““Instead of traditional nanny statism, where we regulate more heavily on price or marketing on what’s sold, we’re taking a world-first approach, which is working with supermarkets using data they already collect about the nutritional value of their shopping baskets and shopping trolleys, the average shop,” Streeting told Sky’s Sunday Morning With Trevor Phillips.
“However, Streeting’s “working with supermarkets” includes fines. “Shops failing to meet the mandatory targets could face fines, which retail sources warned could see prices rise,” The Telegraph reported. “Senior retail figures said they had been blindsided by the ‘draconian’ plans, which they said would add to a growing glut of red tape on business.”
““The exact target will be agreed in talks with major retailers, but ministers are expected to push for it to be set at around 100 calories per basket – the equivalent of two cubes of butter,” The Telegraph said.
“The organisation behind the scheme is Nesta, formerly known as the government-funded National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts. Nesta analysed 36 million supermarket transactions, finding an average shopping basket health score of 67 out of 100. They set a target to raise this score to 69, which, according to their modelling, they estimate would cut obesity by around a fifth over three years, helping more than three million people achieve a healthier weight.
“Nesta suggested that supermarkets will be required to report sales data, and those that fail to hit targets could face financial penalties. The government aims to introduce mandatory reporting by the end of the current parliament in 2029, with the healthy food standard to be fully achieved in the subsequent parliamentary term.”
Just saw this video – Clothes of Dead White Men … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bB3kuuBPVys
Where’s the July open thread?
This story from Broze
https://theconsciousresistance.com/trumps-big-brother-bill/
Links to this
https://www.biometricupdate.com/202506/trumps-megabill-expands-biometric-surveillance
“Biometric provisions also extend to Customs and Border Protection (CBP), which is slated to receive $6.168 billion for modern surveillance, biometric, and screening technologies. The legislative text outlines the deployment of Autonomous Surveillance Towers (AST) and artificial intelligence for threat detection, language that suggests an operational integration of facial recognition, gait analysis, and predictive behavioral models along the southern border.
Autonomous towers are equipped with a variety of sensors to detect activity along the southwest border, enhancing surveillance capabilities and providing real-time information to Border Patrol agents. Since 2020, 300 ASTs have been deployed by Anduril, providing approximately 30 percent of the coverage of the U.S. southern land border.. H.R.1 would scale this system up nationally and integrate it with broader DHS surveillance infrastructure. The AST program is part of CBP’s larger Consolidated Tower and Surveillance Equipment (CTSE) program which encompasses the existing 150 Integrated Fixed Towers and the Remote Video Surveillance System.
Under H.R. 1, CBP would gain broader authority to deploy facial recognition tools at ports of entry and along transportation corridors, in line with DHS’s 2024 strategic plan that envisions end-to-end biometric travel. The plan states that “DHS is aggressively pursuing innovative technologies for detection and strengthening identity verification for travelers within the United States through biometric and biographic techniques and technologies.” While framed as anti-terror and anti-trafficking measures, critics argue the systems normalize mass biometric surveillance with minimal oversight.”
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Copied from a comment under an article about the surveillance forthcoming from Trump’s bill:
https://leohohmann.substack.com/p/trumps-bbb-just-passed-by-senate/comments
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