This one is about the most important thing….. Kids!
In America, but not only.
But that’s at the bottom.
First, I take a few “victory laps”, including the usual UKRO-PORN…..
…..and a word on Skynet, “irreplaceable” people, and the U.S. Army.
Also, I tell you about…..
Switzerland, and supernovas.
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Looky Here!
Something Else The Major/Legacy MSM Knew About…..
….But Were Not “Cleared” To Speak Of…..
…..Until Just Now
This past Thursday, February 9th, at 4:19 PM EST…..
…..the Amazon (Washington) Post told its readers:
“Ukraine’s rocket campaign reliant on U.S. precision targeting, officials say.”
That was the headline, here’s the byline:
“Ukrainian officials say that they almost never launch HIMARS rounds without detailed coordinates provided by U.S. military personnel situated elsewhere in Europe.”
Well, that’s interesting, because…..
…..in the early morning of the PRIOR day…..
…..Wednesday the 8th…..
…..I wrote as follows:
…..I’ve skimmed through THOUSANDS of pages of U.S. military documents (viewing through an OPEN/PUBLIC source, virtualized, NEVER in my own possession, and I’m like, you know, a journalist, so Peter Strzok’s replacement at the FBI can relax)…..
…..with DAILY targeting coordinates for the Ukrainians, DOWN TO SIX DECIMAL PLACES, covering almost the entire Russian deployment. So the HIMARS crews don’t even need to aim, no artillery science to it, they just plug in the coordinates… a mere “data entry” task.)
How did I know about this?
Because on November 10th (maybe 11th, it doesn’t matter)…..
The “Joker DNR” hacking group…..
Posted, on its Telegram channel…..
THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF PAGES of U.S. military-generated documents…..
…..(likely coming from the Pentagon’s National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), but bearing NO definite mark of agency attribution… yeah, real sly, guys… “plausible deniability”, LOL.)
…..with daily… day after day… targeting coordinates…..
…..(and summaries—clearly written by career “imaging analysts”—of what’s at those coordinates)…..
…..that had been given to the Ukrainian side…..
…..and then hacked from some Ukrainian database.
There is NO CHANCE, that any “senior reporter“…..
…..on the military or intelligence “beat”…..
…..at an outlet such as the Amazon Post…..
…..did not know, even BEFORE November…..
…..but at least, BY November…..
….that Uncle Sam is doing almost 100 PERCENT of targeting for the HIMARS.
However, evidently, they were not “cleared” to write about it…..
…..until now.
But, EVEN THEN…..
Notice the “Ukrainian officials say“, in the byline.
They CAN’T EVEN ADMIT…..
…..that they (also) heard it from persons in Washington!
What a bunch of fuckheads.
Now, you may ask…..
Why did I not write about this targeting stuff, earlier?
I did mention it, more vaguely.
At least, as a guest on a podcast that I posted here.
I would’ve written more…..
…..but I’m so busy… and there’s so many topics to cover.
Well, at least you read it here…..
…..one day before Amazon got to it, LOL.
If I “scoop” Amazon…..
Does that make me a “journalist“?
Hell yeah, it does.
I’m just a part-time blogger…..
…..and I’m more of a journalist than these WHORES are.
To motivate me to tell you MONTHS in advance, next time…..
Feel free to give me a pat on the back, here.
Don’t make me work for free!
(Incidentally, there was a girl named Vicky in two political science classes that I took, in undergrad. She was sassy, not shy at all, decent height, athletic build, but with a serious rack. She was also dumb. You’ve got to be dumb, to get “B” grades in a laid-back, undergrad poli-sci course at a second-tier state school. Later, I met her on the subway in Washington. It turns out, while I’d been working on my first masters degree, she took her bachelors and got a trainee analyst job at the NGA. Go figure. I could give you more examples. In the Pentagon, the rack will get you hired. It may or may not get you into management, but it gets you in the door. To anyone who thinks the U.S. security complex is inherently “better” than some other country’s… no, you idiot. The USA is just big and rich.)
Well, Well, Well…..
I told you in EARLY DECEMBER that…..
…..if not stopped…..
…..something like the ChatGPT “artificial intelligence” program…..
…..will be the ultimate tool for social compliance and control…..
…..FAR WORSE than Google and the present dotcom complex…..
…..as it will spit-out well-written…..
…..complex, copy-paste-able (e.g. for your high school or college essay) query answers, which…..
…..if on a “sensitive” topic…..
…..will be 100 percent in line with THE AGENDA.
And that, because people are lazy…..
…..they will prefer this, to Google…..
…..where you at least have to think A LITTLE…..
…..to evaluate the list of “hits.”
(And that Republicans, always cowed and on the take, won’t do shit about it.)
Well, TODAY, thousands of jokers are now asking ChatGPT…..
…..”How many genders are there?“…..
…..and other such questions….
…..and getting PREDICTABLE answers.
Folks, how did I get this to your attention…..
…..two months ago?
Because I’m AHEAD OF THE CURVE…..
…..and THAT’S why you’re here.
(Now, keep in mind, THE AGENDA changes. Time doesn’t stand still. I don’t know what THE AGENDA will be in ten years. We have always been at war with Eurasia, remember? Nonetheless, this technology, if not stopped, will be here, and whoever runs it, will control the world, much more fully and seamlessly than the dotcommies do today.)
Don’t Be “Irreplaceable”
Readers outside of the USA…..
…..might wish to find some background on this one.
This is about James O’Keefe at Project Veritas… but not only.
When “the project” was just him…..
…..and one or two friends…..
…..sure, it was just him (and one or two friends.)
Now, it’s reportedly 65 or more people.
Of whom, 16 have signed and publicized a “no confidence” letter…..
…..aimed at him.
He’s toxic, a bully, he chases out good people.
In response…..
Some donors got together, and threatened the Board…..
…..warning, that if O’Keefe is sidelined or removed…..
…..it’s a violation of fiduciary blah blah.
They’re convinced, O’Keefe is irreplaceable.
Folks, in a large enough organization…..
…..like, larger than 10 or 12 people…..
…..the chances of ANYONE being irreplaceable, are LOW.
Once you get over 25 or 30…..
…..the chances are usually ZERO.
I interned at Stratfor, when…..
…..with about two weeks left in my two-month internship…..
…..their NUMBER TWO guy…..
…..was MURDERED by his idiot neighbor, over a barking dog.
He’d been there since the beginning, the de facto co-founder.
And, Stratfor was a small shop…..
…..when I was there, about 15 full-time people…..
…..counting everyone….
…..him, the founder/owner, the writers, webmaster, layout/editors, perhaps someone to manage subscriptions, as well as a retired KGB guy who had his own office, but he was usually traveling, and I never figured out what he did.
Even before finishing the internship…..
I could see, the guy’s absence would have NO IMPACT.
(And it didn’t.)
Prior to his murder…..
He was creating almost NO CONTENT at all.
Nor was he really managing anything.
Mostly, he just sulked and bitched at people.
And, tried to brainstorm some grand vision or strategy…..
But he communicated it so poorly, it got nowhere.
It just turned people off.
I didn’t see—or hear of—him doing anything else.
Later, I worked at AIPAC…..
…..in the policy and lobbying shop…..
…..the activist “nerve center” of the organization…..
…..where, about two years prior to my arrival…..
…..they had to fire two top guys…..
…..who’d been caught up (all charges later dropped)…..
…..in a bogus “spy” scandal.
Both of them were important.
One of them, was one of three “Directors.”
The dominant of the three…..
From what I gather, a “big swinging dick” (not in a bad way)…..
…..he basically ran that office.
(It turned out later, when he sued AIPAC for wrongful termination, that he used his work computer to arrange for homeless sexual hook-ups. When his wife found out, she was upset. Incidentally, the judge dismissed the case, on grounds that he couldn’t determine what AIPAC’s standards/policies may have been. LOL. In DC, unless it’s some EEO case, judges, as a rule, usually side with the employer. DC can’t afford for all these high-powered entities to up and move across the river.)
As of when I was there…..
…..up through when I left…..
Neither he, nor the other guy…..
…..had been functionally replaced.
(Perhaps they used the money to hire some lesser minds, including myself, but THOSE two guys had NOT been truly replaced.)
And, AIPAC was STRONGER THAN EVER.
It had other sharp, sharp people in that office…..
….and, it had its reputation.
And here we get to James O’Keefe.
In recent months and years…..
…..I doubt James was doing much of anything…..
…..besides sulking and bitching at people.
And…..
…..obviously…..
…..hyping himself to donors.
Folks… every member of your family, I hope…..
…..is irreplaceable to YOU.
Other than that…..
Almost NO ONE is “irreplaceable.”
And the more “irreplaceable” you think you are…..
…..the more TOXIC you are likely to be.
(An aside on Stratfor. That website made its name and commenced its fame, in 1999, by claiming what everyone already knew or suspected, that the U.S. nighttime bombing (five bombs!) of the large Chinese embassy building in Belgrade, was no accident. China had been helping Serbia with its communications, laying fiber optic cable between command centers, radar stations, air defense positions, that sort of thing, among other things… and the embassy itself was suspected of being a comms hub. The facility was later acknowledged to have been the ONLY THING targeted during the war with coordinates provided BY THE CIA… although they claimed they thought it was a Serbian army logistics HQ, LOL. No, Stratfor did not have any “inside sources”, they were (probably still are) just a website… BUT they got online near the dawn of the Internet, and spoke truth at the right time… which Stratfor could “afford” to do, as its owner was, at that time or shortly prior, a political science professor at (something like) East Louisiana State University, and thus obviously did NOT have to worry about losing many friends, or any cocktail party invitations. PS: Only terrorists attack embassies, even at night, when they’re mostly empty (“only” three were killed.) I once told my anxious son, who had watched too much news: Don’t worry about any ISIS’es… because the country we live in—as great and wonderful as it is, and we’re in almost the nicest part of it—is the world’s NUMBER ONE TERRORIST… and if anyone should be afraid, it’s NOT us.)
It’s Coming… Wait For It…..
The main, “banner” headline on Yahoo this morning, read:
“Don’t blame ‘wokeness’ for recruiting woes: U.S. Army.”
(The “woes” being a 25 percent recruiting shortfall in the last fiscal year (FY.) How is this even news, now? The FY ended September 30th.)
The piece goes on to say that the real cause, is “safety“…..
…..that is…..
…..“Young people don’t want to die or get injured, deal with the stress of Army life and put their lives on hold.”
This, according to some Major General…..
…..the “head of army marketing.”
(Probably, this guy.)
One big logical problem, with that.
Why is this happening NOW?
Do youth change so QUICKLY?
If it was “internal” to the youth…..
…..that sort of trend…..
…..would be AT LEAST FIVE (PERHAPS TEN) YEARS…..
…..in the making.
But now, all of a sudden…..
…..the Trumper scum that the military recruits from…..
…..(about two-thirds of the U.S. Army (incl. the reserves) are small-city or rural white males, or conservative Hispanic males)…..
…..don’t want to die for the Empire, any more…..
….because they suddenly realized…..
…..army service is dangerous (who could’ve given them THAT idea?)…..
…..so, better check out the Air Force recruiter…..
…..on the other end of the strip mall!
Or could it be… could it be…..
…..(bear with me, I know this seems crazy)…..
…..the “climate” of the last two years?
In short, when Yahoo…..
…..(actually, the Associated Press, but I don’t know who wrote the headline)…..
…..tells you not to “blame wokeness“…..
…..then, you can be sure…..
…..that Wokeness, is to blame.
Along with the pursuit (real or perceived) of Trumpers in the ranks…..
…..and even more so…..
…..the MSM…..
…..yes, national TV…..
…..talking about all patriotic rednecks…..
…..like they’re white supremacists, and…..
…..since “1/6“…..
…..TERRORISTS.
An “internal enemy”, that sort of thing.
That Major General is some “head of marketing“, jeez.
In his shoes…..
…..I’d have just told it like it is…..
…..and RETIRED.
But, not everyone has DIGNITY.
In short, these assholes have a problem.
It’s not getting better.
But hey, this works just fine for much of the world.
The U.S. Army never truly recovered from Iraq/Afghanistan.
Lately, they’ve had to lower their standards AGAIN…..
…..to bring in slackers and dirtbags…..
…..as they did in 2005-2010.
Russia and China aren’t complaining.
Now, if the Army STILL has a substantial shortfall…..
…..in FY 2023…..
…..the “draft talk” will come back, HARD.
(At least, the talk. The walk? I don’t know.)
And the aged hippies of yesteryear…..
…..will cheer it on…..
…..or at best, ignore it.
You can take that to the bank!
Bow, Daughter of Babylon
Or, “Remember That Oasis Song?“
Last Thursday, February 9th…..
…..NATO’s supreme commander in Europe…..
.….(an American, who else?)…..
…..visited Switzerland, to talk “cooperation.”
Background is…..
…..in April or May…..
…..the Swiss government commissioned a report…..
…..on what it can do, to get closer to NATO…..
…..without violating Switzerland’s neutrality law.
The report was completed in September.
One of the options:
Send Swiss military observers/liaisons to NATO HQ.
Another option…..
Participate in NATO war games.
(LOL. Neutrality, huh.)
In short…..
Doing potentially EVERYTHING with NATO…..
…..OTHER THAN…..
…..signing the NATO treaty.
Folks, you don’t have to be a genius, to see…..
They want to be part of NATO…..
…..and will push their public in that direction…..
…..if they’re able to.
(Same as how countries such as Ireland and the Netherlands joined the European Union. The publics didn’t want to… but the governments wouldn’t take “no” for an answer.)
Now, you know things are heading to a climax…..
…..when even SWITZERLAND…..
…..moves towards NATO.
Please note…..
…..the Russian army has not been in Switzerland in over 220 years…..
…..and even then, it was fighting FOR the Swiss.
Switzerland remained neutral during WW2.
Despite being ENVELOPED by Axis…..
….. it was NOT invaded.
When things seemed close…..
…..Switzerland must have indicated it would “play ball“…..
…..and Hitler decided, it just wasn’t worth it.
NOW, they feel threatened?
I don’t think so!
It’s just a bandwagon…..
…..and politicians like bandwagons.
You don’t need me to tell you…..
…..that the korona and then the Ukraine war…..
…..RADICALLY accelerated GLOBOHOMO.
These things HUGELY strengthened U.S. (or, Anglo-American) dominance.
Pfye-zzer and Mo-der-na, after all…..
…..are American companies.
All the medical authorities, and “prestige” journal editors…..
…..who held that Hydro-xy-chloro-quine or Iver-mectin will KILL you…..
…..thereby, taking these effective drugs…..
…..(HCQ probably saved my wife)…..
…..OUT of the picture, throughout the West…..
…..are U.S. (or UK) persons.
So is NATO.
(Without the USA, NATO is just a building in Belgium. NATO is a euphemism for U.S. military—and now, military-political—hegemony in Europe.)
Folks, this is getting so ridiculous…..
….it’s as if GLOBOHOMO…..
…..is in an immediate PRE-SUPERNOVA phase.
Based on historical precedent…..
…..(and, contrary to the famous neocon position, history has NOT ended)…..
…..it is very likely to collapse…..
SUDDENLY and CATASTROPHICALLY.
You know, the Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian empires…..
…..were brought down suddenly…..
…..at the height of their power.
(Contrary to Biblical prophecy, or its pop interpretation, Babylon was taken over, in an instant, but NOT damaged at all. However, the Assyrian state and its twin capitals were destroyed totally, for all time. It did take a few years, but history was moving slower, then.)
Of course, these two states were conquered.
Obviously, no foreigner (other than some illegal aliens)…..
…..will “conquer” the USA, any time soon…..
…..which leaves the only likely possibility…..
…..as a sudden, “exogenous” mega-shock.
Plan accordingly.
And, if you haven’t yet…..
…..(or, you may do so again)…..
Please tip me for my efforts.
Or at least, follow and like me on Twitter.
Or, leave a nice (or substantive) comment, here.
Any “VIP” who can’t be associated with me, gets a pass…..
Everyone else…..
Please, don’t be a parasite freeloader.
And now…..
The Kids Are Not Alright
Remember that video from my last post…..
…..of the Russian POW’s being killed?
Any idea how that was made public?
The young man who did the shooting…..
…..put it on his Instagram.
Now, closer to home…..
I was talking to someone in the psychology profession.
This person has been in the field for at least 20 years…..
…..working not exclusively, but substantially…..
…..with minors.
This person told me, basically…..
The kids today are NOT alright.
The current crop…..
…..is shockingly mean, narcissistic, and deficient in social skills.
Not all of them, but that’s the tendency.
Social media is a big cause of that.
Schools in some areas being korona-shut for well over a year…..
…..did not help, either.
Again, just passing it on.
Words from a professional.
From my own mouth…..
…..I’d guess modern liberal “hands off” parenting, also contributes.
About the social skills…..
By the time I was 12…..
…..I knew how to pick up the kitchen phone…..
…..and call my neighbor friends, see who wanted to play.
If there was a potential new friend from school…..
…..who lived further away…..
…..I’d know to ask for his house number…..
…..then give it to my mom, so she could arrange something.
How did I learn that?
I dunno, I don’t remember. How does a frog learn to jump?
Last year…..
…..I bought my 12 year-old son a smartphone.
Supposedly, he was “the only kid in my class” without a phone.
So, you know, I had to fix that.
In six months…..
…..before I took it outside…..
…..smashed it with a brick…..
…..and threw it in the trash…..
…..he watched THOUSANDS of YouTube and Tiktok videos…..
…..every chance he got…..
…..but only called ONE friend, ONE time…..
…..(when he first got the phone)…..
…..NEVER texted anyone…..
…..and only received one or two texts…..
…..from each of three or four friends.
Well, at least that shows, he gave out his number!
LOL.
I’d bought him the phone, so he could “connect“…..
…..but all it did…..
…..was take him further out into Medazzaland.
Yes, he does great in school, charming in person, but…..
No skills at all.
Separately…..
I’d like to point out…..
The teen suicide rate in the USA…..
…..has about TRIPLED since 2007…..
…..the year Facebook hit critical mass and went “mainstream.”
What this means…..
…..is social media and the Internet…..
…..are KILLING up to…..
…..(depending on the year)…..
…..SEVERAL HUNDRED TIMES more American minors…..
…..than are school shootings.
“The silent killer“, basically.
I think it’s time we take a long, hard look…..
…..at going house to house…..
…..and confiscating peoples’ Internet.
If necessary…..
Prying it from their cold, dead hands.

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Bible prophecy is not done.
America is known as “the hammer of the whole earth” in the Bible, and also “Babylon the great.”
America-Babylon’s end is not good:
For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the north country [RUSSIA AND FRIENDS]: and they shall set themselves in array against her; from thence she shall be taken: their arrows [MISSILES] shall be as of a mighty expert man; none shall return in vain [ACCURATE]. (Jer 50:9)
How is the hammer of the whole earth [AMERICA] cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations! (Jer 50:23)
And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great [AMERICA] is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. (Rev 18:2)
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Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her. (Rev 18:8)
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Only one escape route.
Social media is designed and built on the basis of “keeping the user hooked”. This “net druglords” hire even psychologists, so that the user interface creates a psychological experience of getting the user addicted to the merch. On that note, yeah, social media is a virtually designed drug addiction.
You can argue against it, but that’s how it is, wether you like it or not. Every experience, every interaction just makes you want to scroll more, and keep scrolling, and keep consuming the merch. Then what about the content?? Sure. That’s the cherry on the cake. For whatever reason, there are agencies that develop “influencers” based on data and tons of information about the best practices for keeping the user wanting to throw their time and/or money into consuming the merch, based on social studies, take advantage of algorithms, targetted user neuro-psychological analysis (such as lonely rich people, fanatics, any specific social category or categories of followers, etc.), even neuroscience (the dopamine won’t trigger itself), facial expressions, psychological studies, etc.
Who could have imagined that exposing the social media drug pill to million of kids with hormones going berserk worldwide would have a serious social impact.
Suspended service on one of my son’s -non-smart phone -okay this goes back to 2009. When he didn’t come up to do his chores!! He tried that trick again – first suspension 2 weeks/ 2nd one – a month.Now he’s married with 3 kids (another on the way) . He doesn’t even have texting!!
ChatGPT us quite good at coding, so it wouldn’t surprize me if it starts to generate its own sites and platforms, along their content. Also, it may take the jobs of lots of programmers.
I got a question for you: why do we have lots of pictures of a ChiCom Party balloon and no pictures of subsequent UF Objects? All I see are Press Releases from Big Brother. No gun camera/radar or Pilot POV helmut cam? Just “Take our word for it, we shot down a UFO a day to keep allayou safe!” Something is smelly, not just the air in Ohio.
You mentioned the video of the Russian POWs being executed. It never ceases to amaze me about such videos how the victims appear to accept their fate completely passively, without resistence, while surely knowing full well what is about to befall them. I don’t understand why they don’t follow Dylan Thomas’s dictum: “Go not gentle into that good night”.
Totally on-point about our kids. They are lost and confused and the adults have left the room. And yes, please! cut those damn cords and smash them phones. Go to your library, see people, read the 15 minutes of actually meaningful drivel you might find online every day in the company of others after being forced to move that body and do something. Pretty soon all that crap online becomes completely unexciting, the lies become so opaque, life holds a little more meaning and you can read long form fiction again – Life without the internet in your home is a blessing, let me tell you.
Amen, brother. Preach on.
But, before you cut that cord…..
BUY MY MERCH!!!!!!!!! 🙂
My credit card still works at the library… Although, I try to make all my payments over the phone… Got an 800 number?
The only positive I take from everything that is going on right now is that most fully vakinated people will be gone in the next 5 or so years. It doesn’t make me happy but it will clear out a lot people who identify as karen’s and kevins.
ADD/ADHD actually might be a good thing IMO. Doyble agent DAN thinks it prevents brain washing if you can’t pay attention to BS. How many of my peers from school are in worse shape than me? I bet most. I too block all all social media at the router level. A government worker was hard pressed to take the nobody at this house uses social media answer. The worker looked like we were aliens. What I wanted to say is that when zerohedge ran the story on project veritas, they named a couple board members. I immediately Googled the name. The usual suspects. You may be right though about the whole thing. Lastly about AI, from what I understand is you can build your own. Tensor is open source and so is some python version. Then you add datasets to it. I would add books. The most important thing about having a honest AI is don’t feed it bad or wrong info. I would say archive as much old stuff as you can before history gets re-writen. Does anyboady hoard books in their dwellings. Aka homes built to last 40 years tops? Guess I’ll stop here. Starting to ramble.
Nice post, thx Jake
Your comments on kids and social media reminded me of two books: Price of Privilege and The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future(Or, Don ‘t Trust Anyone Under 30). Both of these were published in the early stages of social media so things are even worse now.
The POP was written by a child psychologist who specializes in teenagers from affluent families. She found that all their parents talked to them about was their grades and popularity. Consequently, she couldn’t find a there there. She would push the kids to reveal a more substantive side and couldn’t find it. The kids would usually get angry that she wanted to see more from them than the superficial. So it isn’t surprising that affluent kids fall for every retarded woke narrative.
The author of the Dumbest Generation surveyed studies of young people in the digital age and found that rather than expanding their horizons the digital world shrunk it and made them more conformist and insular.
Yes, I am waiting for the “exogenous” event, the hysteria is building, the “balloons”, the 3rd line of defense almost kaput in Ukranistan, should be soon. Massive mental disorder or MMd will be the end of the west.
These are very wierd times. I mean the ok vid nothing more than a flu that really having v ita d lvl in blood above to normal likely saved you with aid of iver or hseeQ. Yet gov lied and tried to enforce a vax that was is unsafe. I am 67 did the d and over and never got the ko vid thing while 4 in my house did, lol explain that.
People still wear masks are we just stupid now. Early in life I worked in contaminated areas where asbestos was and wore a mask obvious not a cloth pos. A micron if I recall is 1000 to an inch. An asbestos fiber is .010 micron and a vir us strand is .001 micron and people feel safe with that stupid cloth. I just laugh. Yet try to explain and people get upset. Its absurd!
I am curious you said hseecue saved your wife assume you got through In dia, what was her dose. I got iver through in dia amazed it made it here.
Anyway I know I’m drifting here and there but my point is this woke c rap, forced vax, print money, eat bugs, steak bad, sex change, crt, who is pushing this and why. Lol the 60s was not like this 70s got better but now nothing makes any sense.
Keep up the good work.
Jim
Go door to door and pry smartphones if not the Internet modems from people’s cold dead hands? LOL, not going to happen even if it will cause civilization to collapse in 20 years. Big business makes too many sales and collects far too much granular hypersegmented consumer data from it. Big Gobbermint gets to keep a close eye on the shee – er, “citizens” and colludes with Big Tech on mass behavior modification experiments. There’s a reason Big Gobberment subsidizes smartphones and Internet access to low income households (courtesy of Big Business of course) to make sure everyone has it.
The targeting support is way more valuable than F-16s and M-1s. All of its supporting elements (mostly satellites, military and commercial, for spying and comms, spook aircraft and theater command centers in Italy and Poland) are potential targets themselves should Putin choose to escalate non-nuclearly. That’s why Elon is trying to rein in Ukrainian Starlink (no hot combat support allowed – I wonder how he draws that line).
I’m AHEAD OF THE CURVE….. You sure are Jacob. I consider myself to be well read and well informed but I can’t predict the way things will unfold like you. Thanks for keeping us in the loop.
I’m genuinely worried about the children. When my daughter was ten (27 years ago, before the insanity elevated to
where it is now) I taught her the value of a solid handshake and making eye contact. Today, kids have a very difficult time making eye contact and holdng even the most minimum of conversations. The pit in my stomach is real.
I deal with teenagers through apprenticeship and quite recently I had a very strange conversation with one of them…..,, the kid told me he did not feel well at school, his schoolmates found him dull and boring because he was not gay, nor bi or trans or whatever……. At only 14? WTF! It is not just the phone that’s a problem! And we have a huge rate of suicide among teenagers as well as violence problems
Swiss banks are feeling the pain from loss of neutrality.
Money is moving out of the country.
I heard a podcast on this from a long-time Swiss banker but I fail to remember names etc
For what it is worth ….
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/09/swiss-national-bank-posts-record-143-billion-loss.html
The internet is the greatest thing ever invented and the worse. It will result in the destruction of civilization.
The US mafia-government doesn’t obey its Constitution.
Why should the Swiss government obey its Constitution.?
What happens when a gov doesn’t obey its Constitution.? NADA
What do you think?
Serbia being threatened to join EU or else. They swore to never join NATO though.
I gotta ask…. how/why did ICP end up in the comments policy?
Enjoyed this one as usual and always learning more concise terminology:
— Anglo-American is a better term than Anglo-Saxon for the US/UK cabal
— NATO is just a synonym for US military
PS: I would be interested in your comments on Russian military — performance, capabilities, moral, etc.
Great post today. You really covered all the bases, great way to start my day and week, thanks!
I also really enjoyed the food industry podcast with your webmaster friend Manny, that‘s a topic that really interests me but also make me so, so sad. I‘m so fortunate to live in the countryside in the quasi neutral but definitely rich country of Austria where I can buy almost all my food locally from the source. We also have a big garden and my husband is a brilliant cook and fermentor. He also bakes bread and makes yoghurt. Yes, I‘m a very luck bitch but I paid my dues and we live on my very modest pension. But even in Austria, in the 30+ years I‘ve lived here, I‘ve watched the obesity levels soar and see the amounts of processed food people have in their shopping carts (hello bugs). People are eating less meat than they used to, drinking less alcohol and getting fatter and fatter and sicker and sicker. Only 20% of the population were able to totally avoid the vakks, and less and less people are getting booossstttt-ed, still the excess mortality rates are up there with Germany‘s and the rest of the vakkss-ed are constantly getting sick. It‘s heartbreaking.
I wrote in an earlier reply that I would be happy to pay 50 or so a year if you are setting up a Substack, Locals or some such site (no porn sites please). I can afford that and would be happy for you to get my annual budget for paid news.
Wishing you and Manny a very good week, thanks again to you both.
God bless us everyone/Gott steh uns bei.
Swiss peoples will never ever vote for NATO or EU membership. I am a Swiss.
Swiss peoples will just wake up one morning as members of NATO. Sorry. Great name btw, is Alzbeta common name in Switzerland?
Homo-globen sounds better, and I should know better.
My daughter just fell off the wagon again, caught her slipping her sim, from her ‘burner’, to her smart phone, my heart sank, yes, okay, okay, she’s a digital junkie, it,s the voice that gives it away, the nasal, slurred tone, Atlas couldn,t carry the weight of my shame, Gowd help me. Or, alteratively we are the digital junkies projecting our addiction then brooming our feckin kids by actually buying the hits for them, jeez, talk and explain as you go regards the effects, it’s fun catching each other out, stooped in the alpha state. there’s no going back so manage the issue and stop bitching !
A small clarification on Ireland and EU membership. Our original entry back in 1972 to the EEC, the precursor to the EU, required a constitutional referendum and was passed by 83% of the electorate. We were pretty happy to join. After all – all that “free” Structural Funds money!!
We rejected the Treaty of Nice in 2001 or thereabouts as it affected our neutrality. We got spanked, lectured, bribed, and propagandised by the EU and our Govt and subsequently approved a constitutional amendment to ratify the Treaty of Nice.
We rejected the Treaty of Lisbon in the late 2000’s, and got spanked, lectured, bribed, and propagandised by the EU and our Govt and subsequently approved this Treaty in a second vote.
Keep the proles voting until you get the answer you want!
Similar thing for the Netherlands (or France) in 2005 they both voted against the EU constitution (Lisbon treaty) in their referendums. And what about the association treaty with Ukraine and the EU? The Netherlands voted NO in the referendum — now look how associated we are. That was the last referendum.
The war criminals we also call politicians and are called leaders by their media are misleaders. They don’t give a shit about their country or citizens… they are only a country when it suits them, i.e. when waging war and escalating out of your name (country) and over your back. Paying for their bullshit and terror in multiple ways.
Thank you, Jacob. I’ve been trying to talk to as many people as possible about the dangers of the phones for kids.
2 weeks ago observed a therapy session of some autistic teenagers. The therapist asked them several times to put their phones away, but the most they could muster was to hide them underneath a peace of clothing. They literally could not stop holding their phones, keeping them close to their bodies.
Kids with autism have problems understanding the world around them. How much is this problem worsened by putting this elusive reality in a contest with the safe, eye-catching, easy-to-understand, easy-to-control virtual reality?
People with autism are notorious for having special, often obscure, interests. ALL of these teenager had the same “special” interest: some app in their phone. Not only do phones impede their development of coping mechanisms, but they also impede them from developing the traits that could make an autistic person useful and/or interesting.
When confronting the therapists about this issue, they replied that the phones/tablets are often the only way that they can get the kids to learn things. Basically, both the therapists and the parents are giving these kids phones and tablets to make THEIR job easier.
Wow.
“As apples of gold in pictures of silver so is a word fitly spoken.”
To see the events of the world and the state of mankind without even a fundamental understanding of scripture is a fool’s errand. For without it the curtain of understanding is going down fast and time is running out. It’s the end of an age and Truth is knocking at the door.
Switch gears for a while, work on your supernatural worldview. Free Will Brothers and Sisters not AI but RI (reasonable intelligence)
Double wow.
I’ve worked with special needs and other disabilities for over 20 years, mainly adults but also older teenagers. I have a lot of experience working with autism and the smartphone is hands down the worst thing that has happened to kids with autism. I took a young man out, a few months back, to a day centre he attends. On the way back home he realised he had left his smart phone at the centre. Cue a full on melt down of epic proportions; screaming, hyperventilating, the works. I had to get to the centre and retrieve the phone before he did himself harm. When he got it back it took another 30 minutes to get him to calm down. He then told me that it was his “connection with the world”. This is only one of many many similar situations I have witnessed regarding smartphones and people with autism in particular.
I stupidly gave our 12 y.o. daughter a smart phone back in 2007. Unlike her older sister who didn‘t get such a phone until she was 16, she had serious problems with social media addiction and worse. When we tried to discipline her by taking her phone away from her, even for a day or so, she acted just like the autistic man you describe. We thought it was her stubborn personality and didn‘t realize then what was going on in her brain. If we had known then what we know now, like Jacob, we would have taken a hammer to that f-ing iPhone.
Triple wow.
Whenever I ask ChatGPT somewhat obscure technical questions it makes up fake info. It works fine when you’re just asking about topics everyone learns in high school or freshman year, but not for even mildly esoteric info. It would be better if it said “I don’t know,” but it literally fabricates false facts. I’ll be more intimidated when they fix that.
When I was growing up it was said TV makes you stupid, now it is smartphones that makes you a slave. Spend time on both, you get a stupid slave. Welcome to the 21st century.
True, Kent. But our parents still kicked us outside. Plus, at least in the afternoons (of the 1960s) there wasn’t much a kid wanted to watch on TV. Outside was a bigger draw, even if you lived where there were several TV channels.
“the “draft talk” will come back, HARD.
(At least, the talk. The walk? I don’t know.)
And the aged hippies of yesteryear…..
…..will cheer it on…..
…..or at best, ignore it.”
I still read the WSJ, especially the comments. What a disappointment to read so many middle-agers lament (at first) the USA’s failure to shoot down a silly balloon, then audibly cheer when that mega-fighter-jet did the deed. (Also, lots of rooting for Ukraine among these same lost-soul commenters).
How about the school system in South Florida that requires the student to have a smart phone when they enter the sixth grade i.e. Middle School. Why? So the super hardworking teachers can assigned homework and allow the lovely videos available be used to supposedly teach the children. In essence the teachers have become monitors while the teaching is basically done using the information from the phone. God help the children that asks questions about any particular subject to the teacher that student is identified as basically a troublemakers or a slow learner. So we have the Dumb down to the extreme. But parents do not know or care. Yes, in some cases the parents that I talk to about this simply say there is nothing they can do about it. So they surrender their children to this horrible system. The children as I have observed seem to me desperate for attention but with a personal and human touch and they are not getting it either in school or at home. So it is not very surprising that they are killing themselves at such high numbers. All institutions including the Church have fallen for this fallacy of this technology that instead of a tool it has become the chains that hold the individual down until it controls them totally.
Just a couple of quick comments. Google has said that its goal is single answer searches. It wants to be able to provide you with the correct answer to your query with just one answer. There is no need for a list of possible sources of info, just the right one at the top.
As far as cell phones and kids go. In my interactions with use, the kids that don’t have cellphones, or at least you don’t see them use cellphones are almost always the more interesting, more socially adjusted kids. One of the big issues in youth culture is that young children rarely have places of “only peers”. Places where the kids have to work together to negotiate the rules of social conduct. Some kids go through most of their lives in adult directed activity. Parents at home and parents supervising play time, teachers supervising everything at school, coaches supervising organized sports. Kids need time to be around their peers where they work out the rules of how to interact with each other. That hasn’t been happening for a while now.
Thanks. Correct me if I’m wrong, but Google only started doing that, quite recently. I assume, in response to the release of ChatGPI, some months ago. Also, Google’s answers (so far) are typically quite a bit shorter than ChatGPI’s.
Agree about the kids. It’s a problem. Mobiles are too easy and addictive, it’s a controlled substance. If I were king for a day, blah blah blah, I would set the mobile, internet social age to be at least 21 and would MAYBE permit flip phones and texting. It’s impossible to do public policy in the USA right now when there is any corporate interest at all.
Assyria “fell” twice-ish, the first one was around +1172 BC when the sea peoples showed up to sack everything but Egypt (greatly diminished anyway) moving against Assyria while the pastoralist mountain peoples took them in the rear … so to speak.
The Assyrians slaughtered their way to survival (as usual) but fell apart later during a less colorful second serving of disaster.
Unless I know nuth’n!
Obviously, as you well know, I was writing about the total and final destruction of the Assyrian state in the 7th century BC. Why shoot a bunch of masturbatory word salad at me? What was the purpose of your comment?
HA! “masturbatory word salad”. I’m getting jealous!
I’m undecided on the AI thing. Yeah sure, I know some people will take the wokeness from an AI as validation. But digging around, there are smaller versions of ChatGPT that will run on a single, beefy home systems with one GPU. Others will fall in between the power scales, small to large. So they will proliferate widely, and as a service, will make money according to the public’s preferences. I think you end up with dozens of these things, and the woke ones will NOT be the most popular, unless the population has gone totally that way, which I don’t believe.
Hello! Today, the woke search engine, and the woke video-hosting service, and the woke payments service sites, etc., etc., totally dominate their respective markets. (We lucked out, so far, with Twitter.) What makes you think the wokesters won’t dominate the AI search/chatbot market, as well???
It’s all about scale. When we had lots of newspapers on actual paper, we had a variety of opinions across the land. When the population concentrated to the coasts in the 1980’s, the loss of that geographic diversity, and concentration in the cities, was a factor in the decline of that. Elite narrative control greatly benefitted. So I’m pointing out that Open Source software like current AI models have the opportunity to be local (scale up or down as needed, either way), and cater to local audiences, local tastes. It’s possible to be crowdsourced, or run and maintained by talented individuals, as the various Linux flavors are. No guarantees, but I wouldn’t rule it out. Longer term, I expect the 4th or 5th gen of these AI chatbots to wipe out a lot of low-end professional and knowledge worker jobs by increasing productivity and thus resulting in needing fewer of these folks. These people lean mostly left, and we’ll have to see how well they take that. Many of these people idiotically supported BLM two years ago, will be curious if the ranks of Antifa and BLM grow, if over 5-10 years whole bunches of white professionals get displaced as their blue collar symmetrical opposites got gutted by automation 40+ years ago. Blue collar people are often more self-restrained, they complain and just go get drunk, not knowing what else to do. Recent College people think in terms of ‘Direct Action’ by their indoctrination, so might be different outcomes.
Linux? Are you kidding me? Come on, man.
I’m a retired IT guy, all I can say is just check out the many websites dedicated to AI Chatbot proliferation, and training, downloads. There are several new chatbots out just in the last two weeks, and the open source and Linux and AI communities are joined at the hip, through Python. It’s flat exploding. Every young Geek is out there building these things. It’s the most attractive thing to them right now, and it guarantees you a job.
LOL man, “every young geek” was building computers in their garage in the 1970s-1980s. “Every young geek” was creating word processing or spreadsheets software (or entire OS’s) in the 1980s. “Every young geek” was doing search engines in the 1990s. So what? You’re a dreamer like John Lennon. Any fool knows how this industry works… because WE ARE LIVING IT… and it’s obviously NOT the way YOU want it to work, sorry. You’re lost in your own disorganized head, not thinking clearly, or trapped in your distant memories of youth, and too out-of-touch to realize how nutty you sound. I allowed your comments as I don’t have a clear policy against nonsense, but now, I gotta go. Thanks for the entertainment.
Calling Chatgpt “Artificial Intelligence”, is worse than calling the mRNA injectables, “vaccines”. InterPlanetary File System (IPFS), and other distributed web technologies hold a lot of promise for a more open internet. Unfortunately, last year, they stumbled out of the gate, with security problems. https://consensys.net/diligence/blog/2022/09/the-forgotten-ipfs-vulnerabilities/
The Swiss weapons makers want nato contracts. Swiss politicians and bureaucrats (like Finnish and Swedish ones) want to go on junkets. Swiss voters will never vote to join nato and as we speak they are collecting signatures towards a nationwide plebiscite to force the country to stay neutral.
When France surrendered and Switzerland had Nazis and fascists on all sides, they did indeed, very reluctantly, make a deal with Berlin to put Swiss industry at the disposal of Nazi germany. The other option was to be invaded.
I agree, “Swiss voters will never vote to join nato”. Given that there appears to be a huge interest to abolish neutrality in all but name (which is anti-constitutional), there will likely be a confrontation between the corrupt politicians and the people. Who will win – democracy or NATO?
Who do you think? Lol. NATO won’t lose anything until it loses everything.
As a paper Swiss who grew up in the US I am horrified at the slow creep towards theEU and NATO. But especially, nato. The younger generation here is being brainwashed in much the wayithasinmostwestern countries and for the first 10yearsi lived here it seemed the Swiss were resisting. However, a massive influx of Immigrants from countries that have different priorities has seriously diluted the culture. We are teetering on the tipping point of no return and those WEFers are dying to push us over the edge. A little diversity is interesting and enriching and a lot does NOT create strength. Contrary to what Michelle Obama says.
True. Otherwise we would have been starved to death. No joke. It was very critical. But don’t forget the Bank for International Settlement BIS. All the money from Wallstreet & City of London for ‘Das Reich’ went through Basel. Regarding neutrality we have a slim hope although the propaganda in the MSM is massive. It’s nevertheless not the same like asking the Netherlanders if they agree to the EU constitution being already in the EU. EU can ignore the results at the end. But our vote, they, the corrupt politicians & weapon manufacturers & our beloved steering HQ, the American Embassy, where the decisions are made, have to accept the vote. Because it’s constitutional. Until the next attempt.
Well, last thing I heard was that the Swiss government was very eager to sign the next Pandemic Treaty and surrender most of its powers to the WHO in case of an “emergency”… Definitely, Switzerland is not what it used to be
Yup. It was a happy day, when I unfriended PhaceBük (I guess your Ridiculous Spelling Policy applies to antisocial media platforms, right?). But by the time I detached from the umbilical, it was too late! Everyone else had been zombified! Pod people! Oh well.
On YT I saw yesterday (Saturday) a video of a very pretty, small, HS girl being attacked by two big guys, throwing her against the lockers, banging her head, kicking her while she was on the floor, with another girl cussing at her. This was in New Jersey. The violence, the brutality, was sickening. Two students were recording, other than the student who posted the video online. The girl committed suicide. My wife, who also watched it, couldn’t sleep last night.
That is why ending segregation was criminal. But no one was thinking of the future victims. There are and have been many such cases, many far worse. That girl, White people are not represented or valued in the country we founded
LOL, go actually watch the video… and realize what a fucking idiot you are.
Jacob,
Excellent warnings on children, as also your other warnings and heads-ups–thanks!
An old bachelor, I have been on the periphery of homeschooling communities and congregations for nearly three decades, am interested in child psycholoty and development and at one point was fairly deeply-read.
It turns out that Sir Francis Bacon hit on something when he aphorized that, “Reading maketh the full man, commerce [conversation, an art we have forgot] maketh the fluent man, and writing maketh the precise man.” Turns out different zones of the brain’s language centers handles each. And in fact, hand writing, printing, cursive script, and typewriting access different areas, as also using a “Dictaphone.” (IF anybody still knows what that is.
Likewise, reading on a tablet of Kindle, from the pages of a book, or off of an animated or streaming video access different areas.
Exposing young children to streaming images–and this indicts tablets, notebooks, desktops, and the damned smartphones hard-wire the child’s brain in ways Jehovah never intended, and render it incapable of some of the functions of higher ratiocination that characterize super-achievers.
Indeed, educationalists such as Mann, Dewey, and Sanger forced printing down the first-grader’s throat, but a long time ago, cursive was taught first, and it hard-wires the brain for performing superior logic. The whining pussies who have taken this totally out of government school curricula have fallen right into the educationalists’ dumb-them-down aims.
Years ago I had a co-worker who although American, was reared in Canadian hinterlands, and there, cursive writing was taught before printing. We loved this old man, because he would attend staff meetings and take “notes.” Actually, he could write beautiful copperplate script that looked like Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration as fast as anybody could talk.
Since we have looked at war a lot lately, German officers between the wars were free to read British, American, and French books and essays on various things martial. From Britain, Captain Sir Basil Liddel-Hart was a brilliant strategic theorist. German officers who would rise to the rank of Field Marshal sought out his writings, copied them down in cursive long-hand German, and demanded their direct reports read and digest. Likewise a certain French tank officer, Colonel Charles DeGaulle. Can anybody imagine translating and writing out in printing an entire book? (Yaasss, today we’d take an image and submit it to machine translation, but that only works where there is electricity, Internet, and a machine that is a sight more reliable than Gurgle Translator.)
Strong Kudos to you for smashing the damned smartphone–I won’t have one, and since I use TracFone, and since it has been bought out, dollars to doughnuts I’ll be forced to migrate over to smartness. Really makes a grossly expensive “anonymized” phone attractive.
I guess you may term me pessimistic, but throughout great swaths of the globe people who have electricity’s blessings now are going to be reduced to cursive writing or nothing. I see the return of the old Soviet samizdat, in which entire novels and technical books were laboriously typed out and run off on purple memeo, bound in notebooks and slipped around in high secrecy. Americans today are wholly bereft of such individual resiliency. ALAS!
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Well said about the smartphones and alienation.
It’s horrifying.