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The world is about to learn this lesson: Engineered scarcity = Engineered dependency Dependency is the leverage global leaders will use to enslave humanity. Junk food, social media and the iPhone are bread and circus used to distract and divide humanity while the globalists take control. Full spectrum dominance through food and fuel scarcity. Shake your sticks at the 1%, the maga forces , the fossil fuels. Men can get pregnant. What is a woman? There s no consensus. The government is rich and can pay your loans and provide universal basic income. Robots will serve you the tacos.
covid -> climate change -> energy crisis was always the plan - it was admitted early 2020 April 2, 2020, World Economic Forum: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/04/climate-change-coronavirus-linked/ After the data was in, direct correlations were drawn between lock-downs and lower human activity. This was celebrated. https://www.climatecentral.org/climate-matters/covid-19-and-climate-chang e Let's go all the back to March of 2020. World Economic Forum dictates that, "Our post-coronavirus world will be built on what we say and do now". We were told to accept a "new normal" where unelected authorities decided who/what was essential. What was targeted from the onset? Gardening. Gyms. Churches. Small businesses. Few protested and the ones that did were severely punished. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/03/coronavirus-world-action-future-gl obal-covid19-pandemic-leadership Here we are today in an upside down world. I'm still wondering if the frog will know it should have jumped out of the pot as the heat was increasing. I supposed it was neither here, nor there. The frog is simply cooked.
We can ride our electric scooters to get the soylent green crackers.
I scream. You scream. We all scream for Wall Street.
2022: The iPhone hasn't changed in 8 years but single moms will send their kids to school in Salvation Army clothes so they can get the latest model. I have never met someone who received government benefits that didn't have the latest iPhone but I work with people w/high incomes who carry cell phones from 2017. Do *real* wealthy people drive new cars and carry expensive hand bags? Americans and Europeans will learn some interesting lessons very soon as things get interesting.
41% of US adults reported having a side job in 2022 to bring in extra money https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/second-jobs-high-inflation-risks-as sociated-working-side-hustle Taxman Lyrics [Intro: Paul McCartney, George Harrison] One, two, three, four One, two... (One, two, three, four) [Verse 1] Let me tell you how it will be There's one for you, nineteen for me 'Cause I'm the taxman Yeah, I'm the taxman [Verse 2] Should five percent appear too small Be thankful I don't take it all 'Cause I'm the taxman Yeah, I'm the taxman [Bridge] (If you drive a car, car) I'll tax the street (If you try to sit, sit) I'll tax your seat (If you get too cold, cold) I'll tax the heat (If you take a walk, walk) I'll tax your feet Taxman [Guitar Solo: Paul McCartney] [Refrain] 'Cause I'm the taxman Yeah, I'm the taxman
20% of Americans couldn t pay their energy bill in the last year. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/23/20percent-of-americans-couldnt-pay-their- energy-bill-in-the-last-year.html "We have to save electricity, but we have to save smartly. If we look at the cost of electricity, then there are spikes in demand. And that makes it expensive, because during those spikes in demand, the expensive gas comes into the market. So we have to FLATTEN THE CURVE and demand spikes We will propose a binding target for reducing peak-time electricity consumption." ~ Unelected EU Commission President von der Leyen
Hyper-inflation, liquidity crisis, energy crisis Did the world look like this before the left took total control? Did you know that several states are being sued because they refuse to purge tens of thousands of dead people from voter rolls, including Michigan? The same people foot-stomping and yelling about "the other" being a threat to democracy are openly thwarting it. No one seems to care. No one seems to fight back or hold anyone accountable. By all accounts, they are getting what they want; what they deserve.
People wont give up their fanciful lifestyles. They can't convince themselves that they're successful unless they're living one or two weeks shy of broke. Sometimes that includes getting all the gimme they can scrounge up. Here in the OC people are driving stuff that is outside a decent person's needs - it's like a suit of armor "because it's Hollywood" Everybody looks the same when the groundskeeper is shoveling dirt onto their box.
I dedicate this song to Grex and the soon to be posthumous memory of Grex: Beware of Darkness by George Harrison [Verse 1] Watch out now, take care Beware of falling swingers Dropping all around you The pain that often mingles in your fingertips Beware of darkness [Verse 2] Watch out now, take care Beware of the thoughts that linger Winding up inside your head The hopelessness around you In the dead of night Beware of sadness [Bridge] It can hit you It can hurt you Make you sore and what is more That is not what you are here for [Verse 3] Watch out now, take care Beware of soft shoe shufflers Dancing down the sidewalks As each unconscious sufferer Wanders aimlessly Beware of Maya [Verse 4] Watch out now, take care Beware of greedy leaders They take you where you should not go While Weeping Atlas Cedars They just want to grow, grow and grow Beware of darkness (beware of darkness)
And also, anyone who is looking at this from the Internet Archive, if you are interested in finding me, I have a website: https://www.distantdark.com It's been fun posting my little rants over the years. Also fun to troll and have fun with people that have came and went. In the end, grex wasn't able to compete with Facebook and Twitter. I get it. Some of us aren't ready to move on. But we are powerless. We run our little home Raspberry Pi servers to SSH back and forth into the sunset. "Party on Garth."
resp:120 Saddest thing you've posted, walkman. Are you leaving? You've fought the good fight.
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resp:120 Oh! Maybe it's GREX that's leaving. resp:coop:369:0
au revoir
#123 Yes. One day soon, Grex will be gone to the ages like the Philistines. I'm holding up my cigarette lighter for an encore but I think the band has left the stage. God bless.
Grex is like Weekend at Bernies now. I'm waving it's hand and it's wearing sunglasses.
It's an abandoned gymnasium. The balls are flat.
Here's an interesting breakdown on who owns Trader Joes. It's an interesting business case study IMO. https://www.aldireviewer.com/aldi-and-trader-joes-are-they-the-same- company/ My favorite fact from this page: "Trader Joe s brings in around $13.7 billion per year in revenue. Compare that to Aldi US, which takes in an estimated $18.44 billion per year with about 4 times as many stores." Very likely the business model for Trader Joes is to offer goods and services in wealthier areas. They could not simply expand and greatly increase revenues. In the meantime, Aldi America is considered a tough competitor to the likes of Kroger, which has incorporated similar products to compete.
Aldi and Trader Joe's are essentially Volkswagon to the Chevy and Ford grocers. My favorite grocery stores have weird names like Ranch something and are mostly run by Persians while loaded with produce off the back of a truck. Bell pepper robbery in any of the big chain places.
"Bell pepper robbery" The bell pepper robber kept asking, "WHERE'S NANCY???" That's word, because, you know You can't touch this You can't touch this Break it down! Stop, Hammer time! "Politically motivated." Yeah, okay sure. October surprise part 1
I was absolutely convinced that the guy visiting who "got in a tussle" over the hammer is a "friend" of theirs. Politics is a dirty murdering business. The guy visiting was dating a pedo woman friend who is also part of their small circle of Berkeley SJWs. It didn't take them 30 seconds to twist the lover's spat into a "Where's Nancy" when nobody ever said such a thing. Never miss an opportunity for self promotion - even when your husband is in ER. Somehow yet, they're linking the guy to Q and Jan6. Stretch that silly putty as far as it can go before the election.
For all we know the old man is safe on pedo island somewhere. "Q" and "Jan 6" are now just dogwhistles for the true believers. I suspect you are right though, the "attacker" is very likely to be in their inner circle. Isn't it funny that the police arrived as the attack was supposedly taking place? They were both holding hammers? Also funny that the attacker is given the middle-name treatment - David Wayne Depape and that as the attack hit the news he was instantly a trump supporter. "Where's Nancy?" The cops just happened to be there when the phrase was uttered? LOL okay. And the Pelosi's are steeped in millions of insider-trading cash but had no security? Ah ha. Yep. Q = Whitmer kidnappers = The $5 gas before Biden was elected = Transitory Inflation = Russia blowing up their own pipelines; all fabrications of the deep state and the useful idiots on their payroll. Remember, Musk buying Twitter is a "National Security Threat". God only knows what fun they have in store for him.
The initially reported intruder story is fake. The intruder was allowed in. The security system was turned off, the cameras were turned off. The intruder arrived unarmed. The hammer belongs to Pelosi. Neither man was wearing pants when the police arrived. This was a lovers quarrel, not a break in. Now, the capitol police, who report to Nancy, are there to cover up the truth. All of this happening right before an election where Nancy is expected to lose power. The glass is broken "outward" It's Paul's hammer. The security system was off. If this was a game of Clue, we'd need lipstick, Viagra, and Colonel Mustard to complete the puzzle. Instead it's Jan6 and GOP's fault that Paul is dating crazy dudes. $46M made in 2021 by Pelosi on the stocks and 5 days served for a DUI. We're supposed to feel bad for this drama. I guess Amber Heard is on vacation.
"Neither man was wearing pants when the police arrived." Oh bloody hell! The cops: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BFY9IkUt8w Paul Pelosi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbZd3EFn3kc Depape: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQ8O9SidZbs See, this is what Grex is all about. Value added to the world.
"Better love next time, baby" -Dr Hook Paul Pelosi Jr was busted in 2013 for his company's dealings (insider trading or somesuch) Paul Sr bought 1M in Tesla stocks then a few days later POTUS Biden announced a federal 600k Tesla vehicles purchase. However, POTUS Biden frowns on energy sector making profits. Shame shame! When grifters grift grifters with a grift.
I am experiencing a morbid curiosity reading millenials on reddit losing their minds over return to office (RTO). Most of them are IT workers and they are threatening to quit - as the mass layoffs start and more and more companies pull workers back into the office. During the last recession, the American left glibly told manufacturing workers to learn to code. I wonder why the American left never mocks college students who end up moving into mom's basement and work retail? Most don't like to talk about how pathetic it is that most Millenials are well into their 30's and less than half own a home or have any children (actual statistics). I suspect this is because most of these people are likely the useful idiots that make up the American left. How many Math & English majors in Ann Arbor that bitch about student loans while working at Starbucks? BERNIE! BERNIE! BERNIE!
https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/diesel-supplier-warns-businesses- prepare-shortages-higher-prices-consumers
Sometimes the fantasy doesn't match reality. https://www.theblaze.com/news/would-be-robber-foiled-indiana
Tyler should have got a job. The rewards are better. Basement dwellers are something. it's even more something when squatters get squatted by more squatters. Has anyone seen Barbarian? It's filmed in Detroit. A real knee slap suspense horror comedy.
Got your iodide tablets yet?
(I actually did obtain a fresh bottle of iodine tablets. I should probably order more. Took forever because of high demand. Would say more but you know.) Was just reading more LGBTQP+ promo emails from the corporation I work for and was thinking - if grown adults are going to play dressup and we get fired for not acknowledging their fake names and genders, how many years are we from putting up with furries that need litter boxes and dog collars at work? Or those dudes that "identify" as non-binary toddlers? Do they get playpens? There has to be a line in the sand somewhere but I'm not sure we will ever reach it in my lifetime.
I'm still trying to get over fake eyebrows that women pencil onto their forehead. People doing gender bender stuff is courageous and I can't imagine they do it with glee - while at the same time I don't understand why an employer nor government needs to tell people how to react or behave in the midst of it. There isn't diversity if not for diversity of thought and culture. There is a movement by the LGBTQOPMONQRS folks to create just one culture of full acceptance which flies in the face of freedom of speech and religion.
Corporations tell their people how to behave, how to think, what to say, how to exist while assuring them they are on one team. Then on a Thursday night are told not to come in on Friday because they buildings are closed while they reevaluate their staff choices. That Thursday night is always the dangling sword over everyone's heads while they are expected to be loyal and dedicated. I wish we could get past all the BS in our society. We either own our own businesses or work for someone else. Why do we need to play games? You show up like an adult, do the work like an adult, get along with others like an adult and go home. Those people who wear the company jackets and shirts with the emblazoned logo are mystifying to me. It's like seeing the cars with the police association stickers on the back. I have no respect or understanding for boot lickers. They have the same Thursday night sword above their heads, regardless.
The left has a gun to everyone's head and here are rules: *If you don't agree with us it's misinformation and terrorism. *Different rules for thee and not for me. I wonder if there will be enough stolen votes and dead people to overcome the crush of people voting against the tyranny, threats and lies. If the right takes control, what will they do with it? Anything productive? Or will it be more of the same but with a different flavor? Either way, there's no stopping the inflation, demand destruction, housing & stock market collapses and worldwide strife. So many bad policies. The biggest being the covid lockdowns, the deliberate sabotage of domestic energy production and the insane government money printing and spending. I have long suspected that higher interest rates set by the Fed are not meant to cool the economy. They are meant to break it so that the 1% can buy repossessed homes, land, cars, boats, etc. I wish someone smarter than me could prove me wrong.
I have long suspected that higher interest rates set by the Fed are not meant to cool the economy. They are meant to break it so that the 1% can buy repossessed homes, land, cars, boats, etc. I wish someone smarter than me could prove me wrong. Inshallah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_dYDwCdz_U
"This video isn't available anymore" Was curious if the DOJ is running the PowerBall since it got shut down at 2am for undisclosed reasons.
Yeah, that smells like funny business. The video link still works for me. Iggy in modern times doing "Repo Man". I always loved that song. Should have been included on the Zombie Birdhouse LP. Here's a neat little Zombie Birdhouse promo: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vQnQ0jw_2Pw
The Doom Loop has been activated. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBf-hoYD28M
Pretty Face going to Hell is an anime I thought it was a Stooges 45 Or a ball peen Pelosi where all the trees are red no one ever dies there no one has a head
"Pretty Face going to Hell is an anime" They also made a shitty sitcom with that title too. Hollywood communists must ruin everything. "ball peen Pelosi" I wonder what banal details we are missing from the Pelosi and DePape escapade. Lots of bizarre and disturbing questions come to mind. The midterms: Big steal or are Americans really smitten with Democrat policies? Are they unaware of how/why inflation and crime are so high? One thing is certain, the left gets to take full ownership of the failures that are about to unfold.
Clive will try to make his way to the back of the room while we use this tazer... This time, the election roll out was not so obviously greedy but it was obvious. Commence operation "food and water" as planned. The villages will be burned on schedule.
Seriously...elections with paper ballots somehow were counted the same night for decades but in 2022 with all of our technology "it will take weeks". If people can't smell something, they are brain dead. Resident Brandon, the geriatric Alzheimer patient gets more votes than anyone in history. Then after destroying our energy independence and printing cash like a madman causes the biggest inflation in our history only to enjoy the biggest Democrat midterm results of any president. It's a huge WTF but people are now conditioned to never question the results. Also, a few days before the election, Brandon gets behind the podium to threaten Americans > telling them they can't question the results and that it will take weeks to count them. This is the behavior of someone on the up and up??? And...the power structure is so arrogant that just for laughs runs a brain dead guy (Fetterman) knowing they can steal enough votes to win. Rubbing it in everyone's faces. Kari Lake, a strong conservative runs for governor in a red state only to lose to another person who hid in the basement??? Yes, WTF.
Ever since the world has been flooded with economic migrants, no one talks about "rape culture". Maybe S. Lynne can help us out. *crickets* How many women are enriched with cultural diversity each year? Here's another one: When an economic migrant rapes a native, is it racist to abort? Sometimes we can escape from, "THE MESSAGE" if we ask the right questions. Here's a fun exercise. Explore what the establishment says about critical thinking. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=critical+thinking+is+bad&t=brave&ia=web
Bank run on crypto wallet companies. Accounts are frozen as the wallet company owners get theirs. Bag holders were the true crypto believers. Where did the money go? Oh, well it was a Ponzi scheme dummy. The more pumping an investment needs, the more people get screwed in the end. This is just the start. Commercial real estate will be a bloodbath. And to make it interesting, wait until people find out companies were creating financial instruments out of their own debt. No end to the spiral of financial hell.
It s actually sad that crypto was ruined by greedy speculators and sleazy crypto wallet companies lending out and spending other people s money. Government regulation only focused on taxing the consumers, not on keeping the wallet companies honest. Celebrities and government insiders on the take. Strangely I suspect regular people will not see the irony in a year when the fed replaces physical cash for government crypto currency.
(rhymes with Insane in the Membrane) Europe needs grain in the Ukraine! Europe needs grain in the Ukraine! Europe needs grain in the Ukraine! Europe needs grain in the Ukraine! Europe needs grain in the Ukraine! Do my shit Cargill, an American investment group (privately owned by an Oligarch family) that owns Ukraine s biggest grain terminal on the Black Sea. Wears its' 'woke' on it's sleeve despite a deep record of corruption, bribery, violence, and intimidation: https://www.cargill.com/ Cargill has a controlling stake in a Ukraine concern called Neptune, which owns the country s largest grain terminal outside Odessa, and almost everything surrounding it. Biden tweet from May: My administration is invoking the Defense Production Act for the third time in less than a week to help Cargill deliver the materials needed to maximize the production of infant formula. We're using the full power of the federal government to ramp up production and increase supply. Cargill was the company that partnered with Bill Gates to make lab grown meat that was promoted all over the liberal industrial complex. Cargill, PepsiCo, and Nestle still do business with Russia. Headline: Cargill allowed to continue in Ukraine. Biden official 'Yes, we did talk about food shortages and it s going to be real,' said US President A Biden offical said, 'They re basically too big to fail at this point. And yes, I know how that sounds.' The point of all this: Ukraine's partitioning. Cargill, Putin and Poland will inherit the earth. Americans pay the bill. Europe freezes and starves.
This is the point in time where the dad tells the children about a parallel history lesson about the CIA installing a puppet military government in Honduras to benefit the slave labor needed for the United Fruit & Cuyamel Fruit Companies in the early 20th century. No one will point out what the Clintons were doing in Haiti or why Obama was enabling Muslim Brotherhood in North Africa. I love America but I'm just going to say that our leaders are up to evil exploitation globally and I'm afraid Americans will pay the price soon. It's never evil corporations or investment groups that pay the price. I mean - think about recent examples where five prime ministers were killed after refusing to distribute covid-19 vaccines. No one on earth wants to talk about that either. And when I bring it up, it's met with long faces and distant eyes. Like the great Leonard Cohen once said, 'Everybody Knows'.
FTX now claiming they were hacked. SMH Positioning themselves to say the money was stolen by cyber thieves, not misappropriated and stolen by the people running the company. How many pensions, 401ks and U.S. banks were invested in these crypto companies??? "Dude, you worry too much."
How many heart attacks happened over the weekend as a result of FTX. How many will happen as a result of the housing collapse. Soylent Green
#160 Seriously. How many marriages ruined? I have seen horror stories perusing reddit. Millenials "managing" their parents money. "I don't know how to tell them they lost everything." Unfortunately this will lead to suicides, physical abuse, substance abuse, etc. The housing collapse is already started even if the normies are playing hear-no-evil, see-no-evil. Did I mention a guy had a house for sale in my neighborhood for 500k (a lot for Metro Detroit) for about a month, then the sign came down. We assumed someone bought it. Later I checked zillow and it says the house is off the market. Zillow estimate $179k. OOOF If it was a flipper, the flipper got burned. We saw this in 2007-8. Beyond that, all those layoffs are going to result in a housing market with desperate sellers and swelling inventory.
I'm already getting black friday mailers. No special products. All prices are the same, as in no deals whatsoever. Q4 is going to be VERY BAD for retail. I'm assuming retailers are going into it with low expectations knowing that sales are down, prices are high, interest rates are high, balances are maxed. Nothing enticing for the consumer. What I find appalling is when the retailer puts sinage that shows the old price with a line through it (a fake, high price), then the regular prices below it. What a deal! We'll see though. People are always surprising me these days.
Trust fund babies taking care of their folks while rolling dice. That is scary and LIKELY. Good luck to folks that took out "line of credit from equity" smh
#163 "Your house is your piggy bank!"
"Pull cash out of your house now!"
As if people are actually pulling out cash. They owe all that money
back, now at 3x interest rates. And GOD HELP those with arm loans. You
would think people would learn. In the meantime, I am watching the
stock market skyrocket lately for no apparent reason. Elections stolen.
Earnings down. Inflated prices. We are living in an abstract world -
like a perverse cartoon. My plan remains: stay the course, focus on self
and family, keep on rocking, keep on saying NO to all the forced
dystopia.
At one point, people will actually start feeling real pain and they will
wake the F up from their stupor. The people who stole their way into
power who are rubbing all our faces into their feces better run.
Speaking of those people - the con artists of the 21st century who buy
power with other people's money then escape justice because they were
"Democrat megadonors"... how much more of this are people going to put
up with? Listen to this guy talk (what he was saying and HIS VOICE)
knowing he was raiding the accounts and living like a king in the
Bahamas... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K15BVxibrw8
In the meantime, the Sigmas of the world are like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfMfZv7-uY8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K15BVxibrw8 April 2021 Red flags: MSNBC interviews FTX CEO who is in Gamer chair, sweaty t-shirt, with messy hair claiming $400B FTX trading volume "25x increase year over year" Anybody who didn't see the greed to risk ratio wasn't paying attention. Just like today with stocks going up. Is everyone doubling down on China? No bodycam footage with Paul Pelosi incident - Nancy is going to retire. Meanwhile, the IRS is winding up like the Tasmanian Devil.
That guys voice - like a cartoon. It's almost unnerving. Did you see his girlfriend? Freakshow people that were elevated to Madoff Supersize. Then you see Fried with Bill Clinton. Amazing. Yeah, the gamer chair greaseball thing. IDK. "Ain't that America, something to see." Cheetos nation. McRibs and one room apartments for you and me. RoundUp Glyphosate in our processed food. Hey Siri, why are so many young people getting cancer? FFWD to Bill Gates telling the world we can eliminate hunger with proprietary GMO seeds and synthetic fertilizer. I wish I could put skull and crossbones emojis here. "Greed-to-risk ratio" - I like that. Remember Greenspan with "irrational exuberance"? He's shockingly alive - seemed like he was 102 20 years ago. Imagine what is running through his head now as we have a labor participation rate of 61.6 percent in 2022 (actual statistic, see link below). Almost 40% real unemployment. People who think recession is coming are in for a huge surprise. It's here and getting worse and the dummy young people won't even work. HOW DO THEY EXIST? If there's some magic formula outside of government handouts they should share it. Did someone find the Arc of the Covenant and are they passing out Manna from God? https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2013/article/labor-force-projections-to-2022 -the-labor-force-participation-rate-continues-to-fall.htm PS My goofball uncle and aunt. I'm 100% sure they thought I was nuts when I told them about the housing market, the food shortages, the crypto, etc. They are in their 70's but have the ear of their arrogant PHD, marxist, millenial loser kid (in his 40s). Anything outside of CNN is a wild right-wing conspiracy theory. Well, I saw them last weekend and they said to me, "everything you told me is true- send me youtube links we want to find out more." I was LOL'ing out loud in my mind. I told them about WEF and how "Build Back Better" was a globalist slogan and they both yelled, "NO!" at the same time. The normies are getting red-pilled. I guess $6 for eggs and milk will do that.
Consensus mechanisms: ensure next block is only one version in blockchain AND keep adversaries from derailing system (90% of currencies use Proof of Work protocol e.g. bitcoin, ethereum..) A block will only be valid if it hashes to a value smaller than the hash of the most recent block. By design, mining difficulty increases with time, securing the blockchain (security through obscurity OR via the richest person who can afford the computing power) Currencies like Bitcoin use a protocol that has a mechanism which adjusts difficulty to be commensurate with the computing power participating in the mining process. The nodes available are the computing power determining the hash rate. (There really is no guarantee that the node with the highest computing power will find the nonce first - due to randomness) A higher hash rate only means that the node can make attempts faster to find the nonce for the next block. Thus enter Byzantine Failures (pun intended) https://www.reuters.com/markets/currencies/banking-giants-new-york-fed-sta rt-1 2-week-digital-dollar-pilot-2022-11-15
Saw that yesterday. Very alarming. There will be no scarcity with a Fed crypto when it comes to "minting" or mining. Likely: The scarcity exists with the end user relative to what their social credit score is. The CBDC will be to cash what cash was to gold circa 1971. Relative value of *everything* will change. $6/eggs will be a joke soon but hey, promises of UBI are super attractive.
$6 eggs will sound like $1 Cadbury monster chocolate bars. We'll all be eating soylent green. Anyone watching The Peripheral? I kinda like it. Speaking of "fake stuff from uncle sam" Currency will disappear and AI will rule.
#169 I'll have to add The Peripheral to my list. I tried Tulsa King the other day. Was quite immature and sexist but I may roll into the second episode and see what happens. May get good? But Chlo Moretz, the star of Peripheral was in Badass 2 and was great in it. She's a good actress and very good looking too; kind of looks like a young Kim Catrell to me. Good for her to score a lead part. $1 Cadbury bars. Oh man. Did you see how big a snickers bar is now? It's the size of my thumb! I'm surprised they don't put a label on it that says, "2 net carbs". LOL (that net carb thing drives me crazy!)
I haven't seen a snickers bar, inshallah LOL Ihave enough problems just with skinny pop bags. Chocolate is a gateway drug. Halloween...there was a handful of 3 musketeer minis dropped at my keyboard by my youngest - I cursed the darkness and woke in a carb coma surrounded by wrappers. Chloe Moretz is a very good actor yeah. The show is a fun one. The villains are also deplorable enough. It reminds me of 24 somehow...when it first came out and I looked forward to new episodes. Gas is super cheap right now. I'm wincing at the idea that this will all soon be history and we'll be talking about the best bicycle for all seasons.
"cursed the darkness and woke in a carb coma surrounded by wrappers." I can relate if swap the 3 musketeers with pizza. Those true words are never admitted by any large woman. The words actually spoken are these, "You don't understand what it's like to be a woman. I try and try. I do everything but nothing works. I don't have testosterone or a male metabolism. It's not FAIR!" Behind ever scenario are hidden bags of shame candy and doritos. I digress. I also really loved 24 before it jumped the shark. Really great plots and great acting, even when all along I suspected that the show was sponsored by the CIA as propaganda. "Torturing brown people is necessary for national security." Gasoline. Not sure if you saw this but the head of Saudi Aramco recently said this:' Today there is spare capacity that is extremely low. If China opens up, [the] economy starts improving or the aviation industry starts asking for more jet fuel, you will erode this spare capacity. When you erode that spare capacity the world should be worried. There will be no space for any hiccup any interruption, any unforeseen events anywhere around the world.' And finally, a talking head from Fox nails the FTX scenario. I'm wondering if FTX will get buried in the news cycle despite the fact that it's several magnitudes worse than Madoff because Democrats and Covid authoritarians benefited from SBF passing around other people's money. $32 billion is an insane amount of money and the damage is going to be epic. I know 'epic' is a word tossed around a lot these days but it really applies here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9wMUhhYjGY&t=232s
$100 billion so far to Ukraine yet nazi saluting azov are literally torturing and executing their own people sympathizers and dumping them in mass graves. Are we the baddies Hans? Unbelievable things going on in the world. Military contractors in the United States get paid. Donations pour back to the politicians. People die. Karma is real.
In an age where freedom of speech is equated with Nazism and anti- propaganda is equated with misinformation, we now can complete with circle with eugenics. Physician-assisted suicide could soon become legal in Massachusetts. What are the pros and cons? https://www.wgbh.org/news/local-news/2022/05/06/physician-assisted- suicide-could-soon-become-legal-in-massachusetts-what-are-the-pros-and- cons It's not a stretch to see the left arguing for forced sterilization and euthanasia for those deemed unfit for society (political opposition?). In Canada, there's no consent needed from parents for children to be killed by the government medicine. In the US, kids are gender confused by teachers for gender reassignment. Imagine how children could be easily coaxed into government-provided death. The left calls political opposition Nazis. Ironic, isn't it?
Hey Siri, who was Edward Bernays? Hey Google, who was Francis Galton?
https://www.history.com/topics/germany/eugenics#section_2 Eugenics in America In the late 19th century, Galton whose cousin was Charles Darwin hoped to better humankind through the propagation of the British elite. His plan never really took hold in his own country, but in America it was more widely embraced. Eugenics made its first official appearance in American history through marriage laws. In 1896, Connecticut made it illegal for people with epilepsy or who were feeble-minded to marry. In 1903, the American Breeder s Association was created to study eugenics. John Harvey Kellogg, of Kellogg cereal fame, organized the Race Betterment Foundation in 1911 and established a pedigree registry. The foundation hosted national conferences on eugenics in 1914, 1915 and 1928. As the concept of eugenics took hold, prominent citizens, scientists and socialists championed the cause and established the Eugenics Record Office. The office tracked families and their genetic traits, claiming most people considered unfit were immigrants, minorities or poor. The Eugenics Record Office also maintained there was clear evidence that supposed negative family traits were caused by bad genes, not racism, economics or the social views of the time. Forced Sterilizations Eugenics in America took a dark turn in the early 20th century, led by California. From 1909 to 1979, around 20,000 sterilizations occurred in California state mental institutions under the guise of protecting society from the offspring of people with mental illness. Many sterilizations were forced and performed on minorities. Thirty- three states would eventually allow involuntary sterilization in whomever lawmakers deemed unworthy to procreate. In 1927, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that forced sterilization of the handicapped does not violate the U.S. Constitution. In the words of Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendall Holmes, three generations of imbeciles are enough. In 1942, the ruling was overturned, but not before thousands of people underwent the procedure. In the 1930s, the governor of Puerto Rico, Menendez Ramos, implemented sterilization programs for Puerto Rican women. Ramos claimed the action was needed to battle rampant poverty and economic strife; however, it may have also been a way to prevent the so-called superior Aryan gene pool from becoming tainted with Latino blood. According to a 1976 Government Accountability Office investigation, between 25 and 50 percent of Native Americans were sterilized between 1970 and 1976. It s thought some sterilizations happened without consent during other surgical procedures such as an appendectomy. In some cases, health care for living children was denied unless their mothers agreed to sterilization.
Who writes history? Who can say which is true or false? True history elevates the crimes (against humanity) of the Germans while downplaying the crimes of the United States, China, Japan, Russia. Note that the origins of propaganda and eugenics were not Germany, yet where are the associations made? All evil players should be condemned regardless of where the writers of history live. The Armenian genocide and Japanese atrocities are still denied in the mainstream today. As the Ukraine tortures and murders it's own people accused of being sympathizers, the American and European media turns a blind eye and labels mention of it 'disinformation'.
Watching Elon Musk troll the establishment and then watching them come after him is peak 2022. Even though Trump said he won't go back to Twitter now that he's been reinstated, the meltdown that his old tweets are visible is priceless. We need more meltdowns and I'm 1000% sure 2023 will not disappoint. This narrative that free speech is "the end of democracy" is eye-brow raising and it's almost as astounding that so few challenge it. FUCKING COWARDS. People who don't fight back against authoritarianism given past history *almost* deserve what they get in the end. I say 'almost' because I don't want to see it happen but I conceded that it's true.
When groups like the ADL and the SPLC are allowed to label people and have them essentially destroyed to suit a cancel culture, we do not live in a free society. Musk WILL live on his knee and will bend to their will in the end. That I'm certain of. If he allows Twitter to be taken down from the app stores and allows it to disintegrate into oblivion, he will get my full approval and admiration despite his globalist leanings. This commentary brought to you buy Grex. If you like my content, please like and subscribe.
Canadians euthanizing children https://banned.video/watch?id=6374e07f0f75fc3deb6e5c70 In America: California law SB-107 allows access to destructive transgender surgeries for all American children without parental consent The Death Cult needs more children. Bring one to Best Buy today for a Black Friday discount.
PS5 Cloud version includes puberty blockers and a vagina hat. email from VPOTUS to a bunch of disappointed MBAs: "This email provides you with an update on the on-time Student Loan Debt Relief plan that President Biden and I announced on August 24th. We reviewed your application and determined that you are eligible for loan relief under the Plan. We have sent this approval on to your loan servicer. You do not need to take any further action. Unfortunately, a number of lawsuits have been filed challenging the program, which have blocked our ability to discharge your debt at present. We believe strongly that the lawsuits are meritless, and the Department of Justice has appealed on our behalf. Your application is complete and approved, and we will discharge your approved debt if and when we prevail in court. We will update you when there are new developments. The Biden-Harris Administration is committed to helping borrowers as they recover from the pandemice. Education is a great equalizer, and we will never top fighting for you!" Amazing to think the Dept of Justice doesn't have the backbone to tell the VPOTUS that even Cash for Clunkers had to go through Congress first to get passed as a law before it could rain cash.
resp:181 I can't tell whether that's real or a parody.
re #182 The quoted part is real.
Here's my rant for this morning: SBF = modern-day Epstein crisis for the establishment He's not in jail because he's under the rug. No one wants to lift that rug! 1000x Madoff (30 billion versus millions) and we are playing patty-cake - opening asking if regulators are allowed to ask him questions??? WTF??? Roll out the guillotine! "They can't touch him because crypto is unregulated." ~ Bloomberg talking heads Uh...crypto wallets operated as banks and are NOT CRYPTO ITSELF. Banks are regulated... we are being lied to. SBF used FTX as a piggy bank for the left and the left's causes and the bagholders are being ignored. It's one thing to be a stock market bagholder - risk/reward means no one should feel sorry for you if you fucked up. But having a bank account aka crypto wallet - there's no reason to expect any losses. In the meantime, iPhone Foxconn slaves are rioting. Guards are being the slaves as they escape. Rail workers may strike. I hope you guys have at least a month of food and medicine on hand. The stock market just defies gravity and fundamentals. The average joe is in line for beer. A football stadium-sized meteorite could be heading for NYC and people would still get in line for beer and lottery tickets. And the Covid queen, Gretchen Whitmer is wearing her mask in public again, signaling to the Covidians that it's that time again to get in line, take a knee, roll up their sleeves. I see morbidly obese cat ladies in the grocery store with a double-mask up to their eyes side-eyeing me. I resist the urge to violently cough at them. Where would be be without cats, romance novels, wine and television?" I'll have a XL McFlurry with M&M's, 2 big macs, 4 large fries and one large diet coke."
Should have read: "Guards are beating the slaves" PS5 cloud with vagina hats - LOL YES. When I engage with the gamer community on youtube, there is a substantial amount of them that are doning studded dog collars and nail polish. Mixed up outcast soyboys that have been prey upon in public schools. One day they are playing dodgeball, the next hosting drag queen story time. What world are we living in? Notice how out of nowhere we have LGBTPQ+ shootings? Student loan statement: How did Harris get anywhere in life? Seriously. She talks like we are stupid and she has not one accomplishment in her miserable life. Their answer was to extend the payment "relief" - allowing people to extend their debt slavery out to June. Everyone knows that before June it will be extended again. Shell game. Kick the can. But watch banks who service that student loan debt to beg for government assistance within the next year. Anyone want to place a bet on it? The banking liquidity crisis is looming. They securitized all kinds of bad car/home loans and now the normies are too broke from $6 eggs to make payments. Something must break. Imagine how the leaders of BRICS nations must laugh at the farce. We have tent cities and McMansions and the only thing that separates the inhabitants is debt. People look at the guy with the corvette and the mcmansion like he's rich. He's one job loss away from the tent. Then I keep hearing the left taunt that even though we have $100 billion for Ukraine, they just can't see how Social Security can stay funded. My wife disagrees with me but I can see the old codgers rising up if they are cut off from SS. And they should. If they were threatened by the mostly peaceful J6 protest, they will be in for a big surprise if they put senior citizens on the street.
SBF did what business people do all day every day. Investors got ripped off because they're greedy and thought they were taking shortcuts. Now, media is pointing out that the DNC got most of their singular donations from SBF (and Soros.) They are blaming SBF for their losses. To me, it's a distraction from the entire Titanic of a stock market about to capsize. SBF is a boogie man but the real villains are the ones killing off every strategic commodity the USA has built upon. The big stick in the eye are these videos of slave labor who are "so skilled" at slicing food, counting and packaging, and squirting sauces into containers. These videos are out there to dazzle Americans as if this is new and was never an American industry. We have at least 3 months supply of food and water. We live in earthquake land so power outages would mean electricity outages then ATM outages, food shortages, etc. Things will devolve quickly. California is not built for civility beyond 72 hours w/o power. Gretchen Whitmer is evil just like Newsom. And then the news about Jenny Granholm meeting for an hour with Bill Gates - nobody is blinking. Grift in everyone's face. Nobody is blinking. Everyone wants to stay in their shell and cross their fingers. LGBT shootings are nothing new actually. The most vicious murders were typically higher in the gay community (if you look at 80's & 90's FBI stats.) Let's be honest though, the perverts who prey on kids or look to groom them have always tried to work in occupations where they could get access alone with them. It's always been that way. It wasn't always talked about (like the Catholics or Assembly of G-d baptists) but today it's still happening and even moreso. Nobody wants to insult the gay community by pointing out that pedos are lining up for teaching jobs and feeling emboldened. Where are the adults in the room to kick their asses. In any other part of the animal kingdom, offspring are protected - in the DNC world offspring are thrown to the wolves so the parents can feel "woke." I dont really talk about all the drivers for why I joined the military but a bit of it may have been to have some formality, routine, civility, and a bit of job training. It was a known fact that job prospects would typically be better if one had some time in service doing something technical. It's not lost on me that student loan bailouts have no prerequisites like successful graduation nor gainful employment in a higher income bracket. There's no ROI for America. The ROI for a GI Bill school loan is obvious if not for the person to serve 2+ years on active duty but also to graduate and have a better income thus to pay higher income taxes. With the student loan bailout they're literally doing the opposite by wanting to only offer it to those who make BELOW a certain income. What am I missing with this? Senior citizens on the street - that reminds me of 1992 when I got off active duty and saw Gov Engler close down all the state mental hospitals - a good majority of the patients being elderly. A few years later I was working at Edison and alot of those former patients would crawl under my Chrysler in winter to feel the engine block heat while they sleep. I'm anticipating this to happen again but it will be VA hospitals. Obama/Biden totally screwed the VA last time and it's already happening now..the backlogs are getting enormous once again. Yes YES, feel your anger.
Really great point about ROI: student loans vs G.I. bill!!! Lower achievement is always rewarded. Starbucks union; pink haired DNC rejects unite to fight fascism , which is anything that challenges their world view. In the meantime real adults aka vets pay high taxes and are the subject of ire. Clown world.
Starbucks union is the funniest thing I've seen in a long time. The second funniest is the nonbinary bad actor who shot up the gay club being paraded out to the judge after the media went nuts claiming the shooter was a right wing homophobe. Funny in a "you hypocrites look very stupid"; not in a "ha ha people died" way. The poor nonbinary kid looks doped to the gills. I can't fathom any of it and am guessing the perp had a crap life and makes crap decisions and hormones were the icing on the cake for psychosis. BUT NO, WE WON'T TALK ABOUT THAT - THAT'S ANTI QUEER. SHAME SHAME! Put on our vagina hats and stick our head in the sand.
#188 The shooter was activated, I mean outraged (!) immediately after the drag club announced an all ages show (aka little boys in drag stripping). Literally one tweet announced the kid drag show and a couple hours later tweeted they were sorry about the shooting. The narrative no one will speak of is that not all LGBTQ are pedophiles and don't want kids being exploited. Here's a good one. New York is banning crypto mining. On the top layer, it's obvious the controllers/cabal/whatever doesn't want competition for the CBDC. On the second more sinister layer is the fact that it is now a matter of law in New York that the government can pick and choose who's going to be shut down due to "carbon". https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/23/new-york-governor-signs-law-cracking- down-on-bitcoin-mining.html VERY DANGEROUS PRECEDENT.
re #189 That's ghost in the machine - how can they dictate who does what with a computer via what power source? If the person plugs their miners into a Tesla does that create a loophole? It's like POTUS saying "semi automatic assault weapons". What do either of those things actually mean.
The naked corruption serves two purposes: 1. It elevates the power structure and rewards compliance with treats. 2. It rubs American tax payers faces in the feces of the corrupt. FTX bought a one room "bank" that looks like a shed in the middle of farm-fuck Idaho with a valuation of $118 million. SBF bought the bank so he could launder real money and create money out of thin air by creating financial instruments out of debt. No opening of books required if you own your own bank. The tip of the iceberg. How many crooks were involved in this operation??? Now that he hasn't been given as much as a jaywalking fine and NYT has him as a keynote speaker with Yellen, Zuckerberg and others at an event! $30 trillion stolen from regular Americans and he's given legitimacy? The power structure is so threatened by all of this because FTX was used to fund Ukraine and Democrat donations (as well as Covid propaganda), I suspect next we will see people (witnesses and employees) start to DIE.
DNC PACs used crypt currencies to transfer funds for ads to keep the origins anonymous. Is it possible FTX going under was part of the burying secrets? "Sam Bankman-Fried, the young billionaire CEO of crypto exchange FTX, had been criticized for promising as much as $1 billion to support Democrats in elections, and then slamming his wallet shut." https://prospect.org/power/crypto-pac-questionnaire-claims-bitcoin-mining- good -for-environment/ Crypto PAC Questionnaire Claims Bitcoin Mining is Good for Environment by David Dayen Oct 27, 2022 Last Friday, Web3 Forward and Crypto Innovation, two PACs bankrolled by crypto industry leaders, announced that they would start running their first general-election ads starting in two weeks. Two weeks would take us to the Friday before the election, an inopportune time to begin a general-election campaign. But the announcement may have been intended to cover up a political liability. Sam Bankman-Fried, the young billionaire CEO of crypto exchange FTX, had been criticized for promising as much as $1 billion to support Democrats in elections, and then slamming his wallet shut. Bankman-Fried, through his $2 million investment in GMI PAC, indirectly funds the Democratic-supporting Web3 Forward. (Crypto Innovation supports Republicans.) His PAC pushing out a last-second ad campaign of at least six figuresa pitiful sum these daysjust as the criticism was coming to a head seems conspicuous. Interestingly, the PAC Bankman-Fried chose for this purpose is not focused on his stated priorities of pandemic preparedness and other long-term threats. Web3 Forward explicitly supports the business Bankman-Fried has grown rich in, seeking a clearer regulatory and legal framework to enable the broader open blockchain economy. A rare glimpse at how these PACs actually talk to candidates is even more revealing. The Prospect has obtained a variety of questionnaires from Web3 Forward, as well as GMI PAC, the primary funding source for Web3 Forward. Questionnaires are a way that PACs and issue-based organizations test whether candidates are on board with their policy preferences; they are often used to decide endorsements. They are also a way for interest groups to get information in front of future policymakers. The information these two PACs are giving candidates, as you might expect, aligns heavily with the desires of the cryptocurrency industry. But it goes even further than what the companies might be willing to say in public. A section in one questionnaire labeled Protecting the Environment claims that Bitcoin proof of work mining, which has been criticized for using extreme amounts of energy, is actually a boost to a clean-energy electric grid, while using 2.5 times less energy than the banking system per dollar of value. The Prospect asked Web3 Forward and GMI PAC to provide sources for this, but they have not responded. As the questionnaire even concedes at one point, the arguments appear to be based on theories from proof-of-work mining participants themselves. Independent energy experts have scoffed at the claims. The questionnaires have other areas of focus as well, like wanting to get the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) off the industrys back, and seeking special carve-outs and tax breaks for digital assets. The aggressive and at times questionable information these PACs are spreading demonstrates how money in politics really works. Regardless of the veracity of the claims, candidates are forced into the position of agreeing with or advocating for them as a condition of obtaining the funding necessary to get elected. Its a benefit our system gives to the rich that no town hall questioner or constituent enjoys. And seeing it up close is bracing. The information these two PACs are giving candidates aligns heavily with the desires of the cryptocurrency industry. GMI PAC LAUNCHED WITH $5.3 million in contributions in January, aiming to raise and spend over $20 million on the midterms. FTX Digital Markets CEO Ryan Salame (himself a major Republican donor, showing how FTX works both sides of the aisle), Framework Ventures co-founder Vance Spencer, and CMS Holdings co-founder Dan Matuszewski made up the initial board of directors. SkyBridge Capital, the hedge fund led by former Trump communications director Anthony Scaramucci, was also a founding donor. (Scaramucci did not respond to a request for comment.) Matuszewski called GMI PAC the crypto communitys campaign arm in a statement during the launch. Bankman-Fried had his own PAC, the pandemic preparednessfocused Protect Our Future, but he gave $2 million to GMI PAC in January. This was part of a blitz by crypto executives, investors, and venture capitalists, who staked PACs with at least $52 million through the end of May. GMI PAC never made a single ad on behalf of a candidate directly. It transferred $3.6 million of its funds to two other super PACs, Web3 Forward (which got $3 million) and Crypto Innovation (which got $600,000). However, prior to that it did spend some money on polling (using the Democratic-linked Public Policy Polling), travel, and consulting and strategy. GMI PACs website, which remains live, looks almost identical to Web3 Forwards, with the same design, about the PAC language, and mission statement (although GMI PAC talks about supporting candidates, while Web3 Forward modifies that to say Democratic candidates). The questionnaires from GMI PAC and Web3 Forward (they have version numbers attached to them, so there were several that changed throughout the election cycle) are also similar. Both ask candidates to support regulatory clarity for crypto, and a stable enough business climate that would keep blockchain and digital asset innovation here in the United States instead of pushing it overseas. That last comment is reminiscent of national champion arguments that Big Tech lobbyists have made, warning that other countries will reap the benefits of superstar companies if regulatory burdens make it impossible to grow stateside. It definitely features in [crypto] industry talking points, and we hear it mirrored back from [congressional] offices, said Mark Hays, a senior policy analyst with Americans for Financial Reform. Hays, who is skeptical of crypto, said he often responds by asking, Do we want to make the U.S. a home for a risky and speculative asset class that could spread contagion throughout the financial system? As is typical for questionnaires of this type, they also ask candidates to sign on to various bills and initiatives, which fall into a few different categories. The first is tax laws. The Virtual Currency Fairness Act would exempt cryptocurrency gains from taxation under a certain de minimis threshold (between $200 and $600), and the Keep Innovation in America Act would reverse reporting provisions for digital assets in the bipartisan infrastructure bill that the industry doesnt like. The SEC is another preoccupation. Two bills supported in the questionnaires, the Securities Clarity Act and the Token Taxonomy Act, would exempt some digital tokens from SEC securities laws, and another supported proposal, from Republican SEC commissioner (nicknamed crypto mom) Hester Peirce, would give tokens a three-year safe harbor from securities rules. Candidates were also asked to overturn two SEC rules they say would give the agency jurisdiction over decentralized finance (DeFi), and to sign on to the Digital Commodity Exchange Act, the House version of a bill that would give oversight authority over much of the crypto market to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission rather than the SEC. (Bankman-Frieds FTX has hired former CFTC commissioner Mark Wetjen as its head of policy and regulation.) One questionnaire also asked candidates to support a letter eight members of Congress sent to the SEC, seeking to back the agency off a federal investigation into the crypto industry. BUT THE MOST SURPRISING PART of the questionnaires was the positioning of Bitcoin proof-of-work mining as an environmental success. A study from the Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index found that one Bitcoin transaction uses enough energy to power the average U.S. home for 50 days, and mining overall uses as much electricity on an annual basis as Argentina. The European Union and several other nations have called for banning proof-of-work mining. The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy has said that it could hamper the battle against climate change. And the fact that Ethereum, another popular blockchain, completely reimagined their network in a way that reduced energy consumption by more than 99 percent suggests that some in the industry recognize the vulnerability of such extravagantly large energy consumption. But that sensitivity is reflected nowhere in the questionnaire, which seeks candidate support for proof-of-work mining. By some estimates, bitcoin validating and gold mining consume approximately the same amount of electricity per year, it states, with Bitcoin mining being cleaner because of the lack of physical pollutants. The stretch here is that [Bitcoin] offers the same kind of value, Hays said, given that Bitcoins inflation-hedging role as digital gold did not pan out when it crashed as inflation soared (while gold has a number of real-world industrial and medical uses). The questionnaire also estimated that bitcoin uses 2.5 times less energy than the banking system per dollar of value, though it kind of gives the game away with the caveat that the estimates were created by participants in the proof of work validation. Its unclear whether this is an apples-to-apples comparison, or whether it just compares Bitcoin mining to everything the much larger global banking system does on its own and invests in. A Greenpeace report about the financial industrys climate-harming investments was used in exactly this fashion by the website Crypto Potato. Hays also mentioned that the financial system can process thousands of transactions per second, while blockchain transactions are orders of magnitude slower. The best test of a currency is how fast you can exchange that currency, and the answer right now [for Bitcoin] is very slowly, Hays said. Regardless of the arguments, many industry participants continue to prize their tokens over the health of the planet. Proof-of-work was also described in the document as good for the energy grid. They provide baseload consumption for solar and wind power generators that otherwise are unable to sell significant amounts of their production capacity, the questionnaire states, and they stabilize electric grids by helping to balance production and demand. Ben Hertz-Shargel, an analyst with energy consultant Wood Mackenzie who participated in a debate on this issue, doubted the claims. Proof-of-work blockchains dont stabilize the grid, Hertz-Shargel told the Prospect. As baseload resources, they keep demand higher around the clock, raising power prices, grid congestion, emissions, and the risk of supply shortages. In the debate, he said that the idea that solar and wind couldnt reach other customers is a problem requiring investment in additional transmission, not proof-of-work mining operations that would siphon off energy to homes and businesses. We need transmission investments, not kind of essentially feeding sugar to the generators to keep them humming while we fail to deliver the energy, he argued. Some Bitcoin supporters have raised the idea that, by being able to turn off in an emergency, mining provides a flexible safety valve to the grid, eating up excess generation and going away when the grid is stressed. Hertz-Shargel saw this as somewhat preposterous: Abstaining from cigarettes every once in a while doesnt make smoking good for your health. Yet regardless of the arguments, many industry participants continue to prize their tokens over the health of the planet. Jack Dorsey, the co-founder of Twitter who now runs Block (formerly Square), briefed members of Congress about Bitcoin in March, telling them that the industry will always go toward where the energy is cheapest and most renewable, and was working on minimizing power consumption. However, he added, banning proof-of-work mining would give up security for Bitcoin users. To that, Dorsey said: We dont believe those trade-offs are worth it. WEB3 FORWARD RAN ADS for 11 Democratic candidates during the primaries, with eight of them winning. Most were in uncompetitive races that Democrats were also sure to win in November, making their belated vow to spend on endorsed candidates in the general election a little hollow. Only three Web3 Forward candidates are in remotely close races: House candidates Val Hoyle (D-OR) and Seth Magaziner (D-RI), and Senate candidate John Fetterman (D-PA). None of the three responded to a request for comment about Web3 Forward and the questionnaires. Web3 Forward has not said where their new round of advertisements would go. Its not clear that Web3 Forwards money made much of a difference in the primaries. In no race did it spend more than the $540,000 it did in Hoyles race. The $212,000 spent for Fetterman in the primary pales in comparison to the $137 million spent by outside groups throughout the Pennsylvania Senate race. But if crypto PACs were just piggybacking on candidates who were already likely to be successful, the information they disseminated could easily have a real-world impact. Candidates know that they could not only benefit from billionaire crypto titans spending in their races, but also be harmed by spending against them if they reject their wishes. That makes questionnaires important tools shifting policy at a critical time for crypto regulation. Its especially true with something as complex as Bitcoin, which also carries the promise of financial inclusion, as Dorsey mentioned in his briefing with members of Congress. We have an understanding that were reaching an underserved audience, he said. Its an old game that Wall Street firms have played forever, to say nothing of other industries: Use simple, unchallenged messaging and the lure of big money to reel in policymakers to their way of thinking, regardless of what that means for their constituents. I think its clear that the industry has learned the money-in-politics game well, even if its not crypto money but fiat money, said Hays. Financial regulation is difficult to grasp, even in the traditional sense. When you add crypto to that and the financial inclusion hype and a fat wallet behind it, candidates without understanding it are going to jump on the bandwagon first and ask questions later.
It's almost amusing as it is destructive that somehow voices of real people are sidelined by corporations, banks and twisted bastards using money and technology. There is no democracy in America. One thing that puts things like this under the radar for some and on the radar for others is the 'fact-check' industrial complex. Watch which issues and events are quickly 'fact-checked'. Even the Balenciaga child p0rn ads were quickly defended by 'fact-checkers'. There are all kinds of 'fact-checkers' running interference for Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX. The political allegiances are obvious, so what would really be interesting to me is who/what entity funds fact-checkers and how the 'fact-checking' disinformation priorities are set. The article above shows how crypto PACS are successful in obscuring these things. So many games but they all seem to back the same ideas, the same people, the same MARXISM. Missing from the FTX story in mainstream media is the fact that $30 billion dollars disappeared and it wasn't solely from hackers. Great lengths were taken to obscure where this money went. The biggest priority of FTX and SBF was buying influence to prevent the very regulations that would add transparency. Both the policy makers and the scammers were benefiting from this lack of transparency and regulation. $30 billion is an incredible amount of money. The end result is that regular people - waitresses, baristas, etc lost all of their wealth. Some people got paid, including entities in the Bahamas. SBF bought mansions for relatives, influence, etc. and so far is not being held accountable. There were many other shell companies and many other players too. No transparency or real investigations to find out what/who/when/where for a reason. But the damage has been done to the benefit of the Federal Reserve who will usher in their solution, which is a global crypto scheme that replaces cash and ends privacy. Madoff was in handcuffs within 2 days of confessing to his brother. People are going to start noticing things are amiss in the justice system, in the media, with political priorities as things unfold with FTX, Ukraine, the banking system, inflation, the housing market, and other issues in 2023. The natives *will* get restless. Like this: "EU Accuses Washington Of Making A Fortune From Ukraine War" Starvation, mass job losses and cold temperatures will put people on edge in the next few months. They have brains and will be able to remember what things were like before 2020.
Ukraine shenanigans and Biden like peanut butter and jelly
I am listening to Bloomberg at 7:20am listening to the talking heads dismiss economic concerns, and paint a fake picture with: 1. The Chinese Riot/Apple stock price 2. The fake inflation & unemployment numbers 3. All emphasis on the Fed, what the Fed will do and the fake numbers that the Fed publishes The kick in the gut right now as always is the frustration that these talking heads put all of the emphasis on the Fed and their interest rates (along with fake numbers on critical economic measurements). There's no real analysis on credit card debt, housing inventories swelling, canceled real estate projects, labor issues, supply chain issues, etc. Take ONE DATA POINT, which is the Fed interest rate and using it to determine an economic future is idiotic. With the fake numbers, the answer is always to be a useful bagholder. BUY THE DIP, don't sell... while the top players pull out and laugh. On the China situation, the really twisted twist from the establishment now? "See, if only China would force vaccinate, they wouldn't need to do lockdowns." Dismissing the fact that the vaccines DO NOT prevent covid infections or the spread of infections and also, the inhuman conditions Chinese lockdowns create. Welding people in apartments... the people should revolt in the most intense way imaginable. Also, the biggest takeaway is that the western establishment fully plans to lock us down again and this revolt is filling their diapers with the runny stuff.
I read a long article about how 45% of China's population is heading into retirement and by 2030 they'll be the Florida of Asia. Soylent Green coming to a theater near you.
Also calls for corporations to divest from China - to use India instead. A deep, dark recession in America will really bring China to it's knees. All those people (usually the "poor in the mind" liberal types who don't understand business) who parrot this idea that China is technologically superior to the U.S. and "owns" it are going to see some how wrong they are. I saw a video clip from China where the "tanks" (Chinese Hummers) were rolling into position for Tiananmen Square II: Electric Boogaloo. Comments under the video pointing out the absurdity that China copied our Hummer vehicle. I was thinking - GM is 50% owned by China... people have no idea. Cad models for the Hummer were very likely just moved to another Chinese site to make their own version. "Technologically superior China" simply signs contracts with companies like Boston Dynamics and then copies the robot dogs and next gen drones... then unleashes them on it's own people. World leaders then gush about how the " China model" is so beautiful. Dream dictatorship, slave labor, compliant people. I can easily imagine after production moves from China to India that China becomes desperate enough to expand their aggressive campaign against India (that the west NEVER TALKS ABOUT). And of course Taiwan is just a biscuit under the gravy. Listening to Bloomberg again this morning. The main talking point is "China needs to force vaccinate" to end the Covid and get production rolling. It's absolutely maddening. This morning it was revealed that Pfizer and Moderna have announced an "emergency" flu vaccine and wait for it... has "the same mNRA technology as the Covid 19 vaccines". IT's easy as A-B-C to see what's next. RECORD FLU DEATHS! VACCINE MANDATES! https://www.newsmax.com/health/health-news/flu-influenza- vaccine/2022/11/28/id/1098195/ Rinse, lather, cut wrists. Blood clots for you and you and you and you. Compromised immune systems, reproductive systems. Shhh! Don't bring that up at Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner. So many Compliant Karens with Stockholm Syndrome are emboldened and if you threaten their world views they go NUTS.
watch grandma die through the window it's sort of like the maternity ward where the man gives his guy friends a cigar except this is the trust fund baby in linen pants and jesus sandals cashing out his moms doublewide as she ekes out her last breaths in the flu ward biden talking about gun control after his crackhead son lost a handgun in a dumpster next to a high school the guy should be wearing a yellow and blue vest greeting people at wal*mart instead of considering an octogenarian run for 2nd term the peripheral was a great show but then more and more cast are trannies. the clue is the dudes in size 14 plus pantsuits with anita bryant hairstyles and pencil eyebrows showing off their veneers. is there an equivalent to fonzi jumping a gay shark or is it a gay fonzi jumping a shark or what do we call this?
The shark is in bondage and fonzi is a toddler boy on a skateboard wearing a dress. ABC will sue the producer when outrage surfaces. The head of entertainment will fly to the Bahamas before anyone figures out that he greenlit the project. Biden arrives in a limo to sniff the boy back stage. Huffington post writes a piece on how courageous ABC is and that skateboards are back but with glitter and cancel culture slogans. Did I just jump the shark? LMAO
fonzi toddler boy....pj bottoms and e-bike tiktok of christ
https://bit.ly/3GZRjBP I started a fake account at Twitter so I could see all the Musk drama. I know I shouldn't have... I feel so dirty now. If I was God I'd send another flood. Things have gone sideways. Now that I've said that, my wanders to the fact that the Sumerians also had a flood story (epic tales of Atrahasis and Gilgamesh) many years before the bible (1,000 BCE vs 2,000 BCE). The hero even built an ark...! There was a "book of Enoch" removed from Jewish and Christian bibles that spoke of things going badly when "the visitors/watchers" aka " angels" had sex with earth women which resulted in giants (giants all over the bible). Enoch was the great-grandfather of Noah and we know that the flood was to cleanse the earth of the giants. Then I wonder why Golliath existed. David later as King killed Og king of Bashan and his family of giants! Pft. I promise to switch to decaf. (I'm also wondering if the watchers were also giant because...how did they mate and make giants?) I have a lot of questions for Mr. Owl but I need to pay him with a tootsie pop.
A great flood seems like it would be in every arsenal of scary bedtime stories...especially for bedwetters or desert dwellers Here in Newsomland, scary stories start with a drought
Lead paint in children's clothing? https://www.nj.com/business/2022/12/childrens-clothing-recall-87k-units- of-these-brands-have-been-recalled-for-lead-paint.html If you want to disarm a campaign, just order the postal service to steal campaign donations. How many dirty tricks are in the bag of tricks? https://nypost.com/2022/12/02/ny-gop-rep-stefanik-postal-service-stole- 20k-in-donor-checks-from-mail/ Tech job cuts mean LOTS of H-1B visas become illegals quickly. "Workers on temporary visas often have 60 to 90 days to find a new gig so they can avoid being deported." https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/02/tech-layoffs-leave-visa-holders- scrambling-for-jobs-to-remain-in-us.html I've seen jobs posted where it's stated the positions are *not* for H-1B visa applicants.
File under "Item has an opposite intended consequence": Luxury disinfectant maker "The Laundress" recalls cleaning products because they might contain bacteria. https://www.wpxi.com/news/trending/recall-alert-8-million-items-recalled- by-laundress-bacteria-risk/UBFX75NFONDEVL2GNHTC2IAMJU/ "The Consumer Product Safety Commission announced the recall Thursday, which covers approximately 8 million products. The CPSC said the recalled products may contain bacteria, which could put people with weakened immune systems, external medical devices and underlying lung infections at risk of a serious infection."
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Are Baker and [former Twitter executive] Vijaya Gadde on suicide watch yet?
Vijaya Gadde having left Twitter as chief legal officer (CLO), is still with Mercy Corps. She is also looking at sharing part of the $200M golden parachute for the C Suite Twitter buhbye send off. In January, more circus and cake but instead of Jan6 ice capades it's going to be GOP inquisition high wire acts. Meet the old boss, same as the new boss..or something like that. (I crossed paths with Vijaya a million years ago when she was at Juniper.. ..pretty sure it was in Orlando at GovCon or something)
resp:207 Hire me! I'm a bargain because I'll settle for a measly $100M severance package.
re #208 You and me both! And these packages half the time fly under income taxes radars because they emerge as unliquidated shares or dumped right into 401k, etc.
#207 Right. Instead of taking charge and being responsible, we will get more partisan witch hunts. Brinkmanship. Tit-for-tat. 2023 will be epic miserable with inflation, high interest rates, falling real estate, etc. The last thing we need is more endless partisan witch- hunts. Though I am thorough enjoying the red pills handed out from the Twitter data dumps. People are losing their sh!t which is a beautiful thing. 2020-2022 was purgatory. 2023 will be hell. CBDC & universal basic income schemes will be easy to pull off. Springtime for Karl Marx.
Foodstamps for everybody - at select soup kitchens near you
If by "foodstamps" you mean crickets and by kitchens, you mean the tray of crickets slid through the rectangular hole in your 5x10 domicile, then yes. The camp will serve rations of crickets in proportion to the work measured. The pretty girls and boys will be adopted by the camp man1agement. They will get steak and potatoes. ... My prediction (based on prior events and data): No one will get caught sabotaging food/power stations despite easy access to cell phone pings, security cameras, local ring cameras, etc. BUT: a group of "Pro-2A right-wing anti-trans homophobic Russian-backed insurrectionist Christian white-supremacist antivax conspiracy theorist QAnon MAGA domestic terrorists" will be found PLANNING it and of course, the usual suspects will be embedded in the group. Show-trials to follow. Now to the why... Blackouts can be achieved by foreign actors remotely. So the physical shutdowns are the smoking gun. Blackouts will be accelerated by *some people* to stir up FUD before more intense blackouts, which preceded, "your bank accounts have been emptied by THE RUSSIANS". It's a good think I'm crazy and none of this is real. PS Both my wife and I woke up to stolen debit/credit card notices this morning. For the wife, the notice came via text message. For me, a denied Amazon transaction. "Verify your card." "Sorry, something went wrong." UGH
That sucks about your credit cards. Good thing we can TRUST THE BANK to fix it. <scans wrist barcode>
I have a friend who found out about his mother's passing via a probate court notice via usps this week. His siblings are awesome.
Anyone think that maybe the "hacking" of FTX was not an inside job? "The crypto wallets associated with now-bankrupt trading firm Alameda Research, the sister company of FTX, were seen transferring out funds just days after the former CEO Sam Bankman Fried was released on a $250 million bond." "The ongoing fund movements from Alameda wallets coincided with Bankman Fried s bail because right after FTX filed for bankruptcy on Nov. 11, the exchange wallets were hacked for millions of dollars. The United States Department of Justice is currently investigating the $352 million FTX exploit right after its bankruptcy filing as well." https://www.zerohedge.com/crypto/alameda-wallets-suddenly-become-active- day-after-sbfs-bail-out
If you look at the stocks most promoted by the mainstream media, like Caravan, Peloton, Beyond Meat, Coinbase, Teladoc, Lemonade, Robinhood, Snap, Zoom, DocuSign, Spotify, Tesla, and Netflix - most lost 80+% of their value in less than a year. As the media pumped, the biggest shareholders - the "owners" of these companies dumped. So much easy access to money from Fed printing that people were too greedy to be skeptical. Similar things going on with commercial and single-family home real estate. 2023 is going to be so interesting.
It's amazing there arent' buyers and there arent' sellers - who's lying
We were at the infamous Birch Run mall today on the way back from Frankenmuth. There was an area that was completely empty and roped off. A good 1/4 of the site. Sprinkled throughout away from this area were stores missing. They had most of the premium stores all crammed together. After I dropped the wife off at the "good" section, I drove to around the back where the not-so premium stores were (across from the completely empty set of stores) and saw a 60-70% off sale sign at Haggar For Men. Holy smokes, I practically robbed the place. Between my son and I, we bought 3 suits, 5 dress pants, 6 dress shirts, a belt, 3 ties, a pair of jeans...I know I'm forgetting some things...anyway at Men's Warehouse this would be easily been $2,000. With the 60-70% off the already marked down prices we paid > get this > $275. It felt dirty but I'm supposed to return back to the office soon and I'm SET. Imagine getting a premium sports coat for $20. It will cost more to have it tailored! Beyond that, I chatted up the lady running the store and we discussed, "retail apocalypse". I'm 100% convinced people have absolutely no idea what is about to happen. The lady was super-smart and a real go-getter. If I was a hiring manager, I'd bring her into my group. At any rate, Haggar, like so many other stores is permanently closing in a month and "going online". Ideas like customer service and trying things on are going to be lost concepts soon. Welcome to Amazon Basics.
The problem with online is the cost of transport and the unions that do the work. I can see thsi going sideways for Amazon. Too big to fail or something. DHL almost took over USPS in 2007 and the energy crisis put them out of commission.
https://www.wards.com/ https://www.sears.com/ https://www.toysrus.com/ https://www.kmart.com/ if you go to https://www.hudsons.com/ it will take you to https://www.target.com/ Pretty neat. All these stores are as real as Zelenskky at the Golden Globes. Not long until https://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/ and https://www.bestbuy.com/ are online only Unions running warehouses. 3rd party slaves drive the vans while IRS tracks each Venmo payment.
Soyjacks and Karens shilling for perpetual war in Ukraine pleases Blackrock and Raytheon. Dye your hair purple and shake your fist at January 6. Pawns. America is being remade into the image of a homeless, drug addicted, Nicaraguan drag queen. What is the endgame of migration replacement? Ever look at the labor participation rate? It keeps shrinking. I wonder why. Once unique as the breakfast tacos people replace the working poor and middle America, who pays for the endless wars and soup kitchens? Who's pension, bank account and 401k will serve as bag holders for the inside traders in Washington?
Dont forget the least brilliant of the planet will willing store refuse toxic waste and criminal expulsions. Chunky enough for a fork but made to eat with a spoon.
WTI Crude oil in June was $130 a barrel. Today it's $77 a barrel. The chart shows a line straight down. Oil stocks are high. Price at the pump is high. Yet the price of oil per barrel is almost half. Hmmmm... WWIII on the horizon. At the Pentagon, push to send F-16s to Ukraine picks up steam https://www.politico.com/news/2023/01/28/pentagon-send-f-16s-ukraine-0008 0045 Pfizer's Director of Research and Development, Strategic Operations and an mRNA Scientific Planner: Jordon Trishton Walker admits to gain of function research https://thepostmillennial.com/pfizer-responds-to-project-veritas-exposing -pfizer-exec-denies-mutating-covid-19-virus-for-new-vaccines Bioweapons and their fake cures, a "cash cow". How much are Americans willing to put up with? Money Disappearing From Bank Of America, Zelle Accounts https://www.abccolumbia.com/2023/01/19/bank-of-america-zelle-customers-al lege-continued-fraud-issues-missing-funds/money-disappearing-from-bank-of -america-zelle-accounts/ Tractor Supply Chicken Feed Reportedly Causing Egglaying to Stop https://www.homesteadingtoday.com/threads/tractor-supply-chicken-feed-rep ortedly-causing-egglaying-to-stop.625012/ Chickens Killed in Fire at Connecticut Egg Farm Connecticut authorities are investigating the cause of a fire at a large egg farm that burned for hours and killed a number of chickens https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/connecticut/articles/2023-01-29/c hickens-killed-in-fire-at-connecticut-egg-farm Egg prices have soared 60% in a year. Here's why. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/eggs-prices-2022-chicken-bird-flu-inflation- cpi/ "Nearly 58 million birds have been infected with avian flu as of January 6, the USDA said, making it the deadliest outbreak in U.S. history. Infected birds must be slaughtered, causing egg supplies to fall and prices to surge." 3 sources of attack: plant fires, bogus feed, "bird flu". You pay 60% more. Eggs are in almost everything.
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