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Canadian Prepper, 10/15/26
"Alert! Iran Evacuating Military Bases;
Massive US Airlift Underway; Ukraine in Total Blackout"
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So, we rise from the rubble...
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Thursday, October 15, 2026
Dan, I Allegedly, "The Holidays Are Getting Out of Control"
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Dan, I Allegedly, 10/15/26
"The Holidays Are Getting Out of Control"
"Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas 2026 are coming at a time when Americans are already feeling the pressure of inflation, rising living costs, and declining consumer confidence. iAllegedly breaks down the staggering cost of Halloween candy, costumes, and decorations, the debate over Thanksgiving dinner prices, and why Christmas could be financially difficult for so many families. We also look at rising business expenses, restaurant affordability, energy bills, and the growing pressure on household budgets. The numbers tell a troubling story, but there is more to the holidays than money. Dan shares why kindness, community, and helping others matter now more than ever. Watch, share your thoughts in the comments, and subscribe to iAllegedly for business news, economic updates, and personal finance insights you can use."
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"Snyder Reports, 10/15/26"
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Snyder Reports, 10/15/26
"Why Prices Are About to Surge:
Breaking Down the Latest Reports"
"Today's inflation report is flashing a warning. Wholesale prices just jumped 6.3% - the biggest gain since 2022 - while inflation sits at 3.7%. Here's what it means for you. More than 4 in 10 Americans are already struggling to pay for basic necessities according to new Pew Research, and experts say if producer prices stay elevated, we face greater risk of additional consumer price increases over the next 3 to 6 months. In this video I break down the Producer Price Index, why wholesale costs dictate your retail prices, the 2021-2022 chart you need to see, and the 5 specific ways you could pay more: groceries, diesel and transport, electricity and household expenses, restaurants, and interest rates from credit cards to car loans and mortgages."
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Snyder Reports, 10/15/26
13 States on Blackout Watch:
What This Emergency Order Means For You"
"The Department of Energy just issued an emergency order effective Oct 13-16 to prevent blackouts across 13 states. Here's which states are affected, why the fall heat wave + maintenance shutdowns triggered it, and what it means for winter. In this update we break down the DOE emergency authorization for PJM Interconnection to use extra backup generation to keep the power on. Tight grid conditions are caused by growing electricity demand colliding with autumn maintenance season and major transmission construction ahead of winter. You'll learn the 13 Mid-Atlantic and Midwest states covered - including Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Ohio, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee and North Carolina - why record fall heat in the 80s-90s is straining the system, when the cooldown hits Friday into the 50s-60s, and why meteorologists warn of high uncertainty for winter 2026 with El Nino, flooding in some areas and early snow in others. We also cover what PJM has warned about grid upgrades, why your electric bill includes poles, lines, generators and transformers, why cities are already stocking ice melt and sand, and simple prep steps including masonry sand for traction and preparing for rolling power blackout swings as AC and heat both surge."
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Adventures With Danno, "Saving Where We Can At Kroger, Price Increases Everywhere"
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Adventures With Danno, 10/15/26
"Saving Where We Can At Kroger,
Price Increases Everywhere"
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Real Kashi Stores, 10/15/26
"15 Canned Foods You Should Stock
Up On Before November 1st, 2026!"
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"Only Covid Deaths In Hospitals"
"Only Covid Deaths In Hospitals"
by John Olooney
"I’m telling you all now, as a funeral director of twenty years who sat with EVERY family told they had lost a loved one to covid, a pattern emerged very quickly. They ALL had pretty the same exact story. None of them went into hospital with covid. None. None had covid going into hospital. They ALL “caught it in there”.
That’s the first statistical total impossibility. They all went into hospital, usually after a fall or with a water or chest infection or simply because they were old and frail, and then the waiting hyenas you clapped on doorsteps for closed in on them.
Let me explain. After some serious deep investigation it became very clear what the template for the lie was consistent. I even went through their process myself when they targeted me. They will PCR test and Lateral Flow test you, endlessly, only until they produced a positive covid result, usually on between 40-45 cycles, the more cycles the greater likelihood of a fake positive, 25 cycles is recommended with PCR. They used 45 cycles locally on PCR almost always getting the result they needed to act.
At no point were those tested usually even symptomatic – not until the covid “treatment” commenced once they were transferred on to a covid ward on the back of that faked positive covid test result. They all knew it was fake, the science and facts confirm that if you choose to look at it in detail. I have done so and i challenge anyone to call me out on that fact.
Much like a cancer patient who is also asymptomatic on diagnosis, they only displayed expected symptoms once “treatment” had begun. So” treatment” of asymptomatic people labelled as covid positive on the back of a 45 cycle PCR test consisted of Ventilation, Remdesivir and morphine and loads of it. Once you give someone a drug you’ll often see known side effects, we all know what morphine does..
But remdesivir is the real killer, remdesivir was the covid. So they faked a covid test, treated these vulnerable people no one could visit with remdesivir. Only then you see “respiratory symptoms” as they simply fall over and die full of fluid due to kidney and organ failure – because of the remdesivir and because of the morphine suppressing their ability to breath.
They tell the family they caught covid in there. The family of course believe it, they cannot attend, they kill their loved ones with no one even present or allowed in. Hospitals were all bribed or bullied to take remdesivir in, none of them even wanted it, they know what it does.
Ask any respiratory consultant what that protocol does to those struggling to breath – it kills them. Yet they did it over and over and over – to convince you of covid. They were bullied or bribed with discounts on other medical supplies they regularly bought and did need. The paper trails are there to find. Lets see them, foi requests, get them in.
I throw down the gauntlet to ANY respiratory consultant to challenge what i have written above on remdesivir and morphine protocols for respiratory patients – its murder. Any respiratory consultant prescribing remdesivir to a respiratory patient is a murderer based on clinical fact and the consistent and endless outcomes of those poor souls given it.
And they monetized it. None of them will ever speak or debate me, they never have. Because they all know the truth. EVERY single family told me the exact same story throughout covid. Google “side effects of remdesivir” and KNOW the truth. Anyone who was given that drug and went on to be labelled as a covid death was a murder victim.
Oh and to cap it all off look at the amount of money that was given to hospitals for each covid labelled death. Why the fck would anyone in their right mind monetize a covid labelled death outcome in a “pandemic” ? Why? I will tell you why. To incentivize covid and generate covid labelled deaths and convince people to offer their arms for the “cure” , which is now the biggest killer of all. They had to incentivize killers to claw that money in. Make sure you clap on doorsteps.
A reminder: “Covid deaths” did not happen at home, they only happened in hospitals. (1 min, 30 sec) - https://x.com/karma44921039/status/2110257022025535777
"The Pharma Rep Who Saw The List"
"The Pharma Rep Who Saw The List"
by Wikileaks
“I sold cancer drugs for 11 years. I made $340,000 a year convincing doctors to prescribe treatments I knew didn’t work. Then one night, I saw the list. And I understood everything. I was a senior sales representative for one of the top three pharmaceutical companies in the world. I won’t name them yet. My lawyers are still working on my protection agreement under the Executive Order.
My job was simple: visit oncologists, buy them dinners, take them to conferences, and make sure they prescribed our chemotherapy drugs over the competitors. I was good at it. Top 1% nationally for seven consecutive years. I never questioned it. The drugs had FDA approval. The doctors trusted me. The patients trusted them. The system worked - for everyone except the patients.
In November 2024, I was at a private dinner in Manhattan with three executives from my company. We had closed a $1.2 billion hospital network contract. Champagne. Cigars. The usual. One of the executives left his phone on the table when he went to the bathroom. A notification popped up. It was an encrypted message. The preview read: “Updated K-List attached. 2,847 names added this quarter. Confirm receipt.” I didn’t touch the phone. But I remembered the term. K-List.
Over the next three months, I quietly asked around. Most people had never heard of it. But one senior colleague - a man who had been with the company for 30 years - went pale when I mentioned it. He pulled me into a stairwell and said: “The K-List is the kill list. It’s every patient whose insurance profile makes them more profitable dead than alive. Long-term treatment patients who are about to hit their coverage cap. If they die before the cap, the company collects the full treatment cycle payment. If they live past it, the insurance stops paying and we lose money.”
I said: “Are you telling me we let people die for billing optimization?” He said: “We don’t let them die. We make sure the treatment doesn’t work well enough to save them. The dosing protocols are calibrated. Not to kill. Just to not cure.”
I went home that night and threw up for an hour. 2,847 names added in one quarter. Four quarters a year. For how many years? The math is simple. And the math is murder.
I resigned in January 2025. I took nothing with me except what I remembered. But when Executive Order 2026-1947 was signed, I contacted a lawyer. The NDA protections are dissolving. The whistleblower provisions are active. I am one of dozens preparing to testify.
The pharmaceutical industry doesn’t just suppress cures. It engineers death on a schedule. And every single executive knows it. The K-List is real. The names on it are real. And in 34 days, the world will see it. They didn't just hide the cure. They engineered the death."
Wednesday, October 14, 2026
"A Look to the Heavens"
“It's the bubble versus the cloud. NGC 7635, the Bubble Nebula, is being pushed out by the stellar wind of massive central star BD+602522. Next door, though, lives a giant molecular cloud, visible to the right. At this place in space, an irresistible force meets an immovable object in an interesting way.
The cloud is able to contain the expansion of the bubble gas, but gets blasted by the hot radiation from the bubble's central star. The radiation heats up dense regions of the molecular cloud causing it to glow. The Bubble Nebula, pictured above in scientifically mapped colors to bring up contrast, is about 10 light-years across and part of a much larger complex of stars and shells. The Bubble Nebula can be seen with a small telescope towards the constellation of the Queen of Aethiopia (Cassiopeia).”
"This World..."
"This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle;
wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it."
- Thomas Carlyle
"Floating Kingdom Above the Clouds"
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"Floating Kingdom Above the Clouds"
"Welcome to the "Floating Kingdom Above the Clouds," a peaceful dreamlike world where majestic palaces, glowing gardens, crystal waterfalls, turquoise waters, and heavenly landscapes drift high above the clouds. This relaxing fantasy music is perfect for relaxation & stress relief, meditation & mindfulness, reading & studying, sleep & peaceful rest, creative inspiration, dreaming & escaping into a fantasy world. Relax, breathe slowly, and imagine yourself floating above the clouds… into a kingdom where everything is peaceful, beautiful, and eternal."
Native American Elder, "Here's Why I Trust Animals More Than People"
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Native American Elder,
"Here's Why I Trust Animals More Than People"
"I’m Not Mean, I’m Just Done"
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Blues Masterpiece,
"I’m Not Mean, I’m Just Done"
“I’m Not Mean, I’m Just Done” tells the story of someone who has reached their limit. The singer isn’t angry anymore, isn’t looking for revenge, and isn’t trying to argue - they’re simply finished giving energy to people who never appreciated it. Driven by slow blues guitar and the weary cry of the harmonica, the song moves with quiet strength and hard-earned wisdom. The voice carries the sound of someone who has been patient for too long and finally decided to walk away without looking back. Not bitter. Not cruel. Just done."
"The Grid Went Down: 1 Year Without Electricity"
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"The Grid Went Down: 1 Year Without Electricity"
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"469,719 Bankruptcies In 9 Months! People Have Stopped Paying Their Bills And Now They're Being Sued"
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Epic Economist, 10/14/26
"469,719 Bankruptcies In 9 Months! People Have
Stopped Paying Their Bills And Now They're Being Sued"
"469,719 bankruptcy filings in the first nine months of 2026 - up 11% from last year. At the same time, debt collection lawsuits are flooding state courts. In Texas alone, creditors and debt collectors filed 515,371 debt lawsuits in 2025, up 77% from 2019. In Missouri, debt suits nearly doubled to 121,572. Seven of the eight states in the new Pew study saw more cases in 2025 than in 2024, and about three quarters of these cases involve less than $4,000 - mostly credit cards and medical bills. Roughly seven out of ten of these lawsuits end in a default judgment. The person being sued never shows up, and the company suing them wins automatically. In this video we walk through how the system really works: the one mistake that turns a $3,000 card balance into a garnished paycheck, what a judgment lets a creditor take in your state, which benefits are protected, who is actually filing these lawsuits, and the one letter that makes a debt collector prove what it says you owe. Households now owe $18.77 trillion, credit card balances stand at $1.263 trillion, and close to 7% of card balances slid into serious delinquency over the past year. Individual Chapter 7 filings rose 13% to 282,413, and 49,672 individuals and families filed for bankruptcy in September alone."
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"The Politics of Denial: When Americans Stop Seeing the Warning Signs"
"The Politics of Denial:
When Americans Stop Seeing the Warning Signs"
By John & Nisha Whitehead
“You see them on the street. You watch them on TV. You might even vote for one this fall. You think they’re people just like you. You’re wrong. Dead wrong.” — "They Live"
Excerpt: "The spectacle of public executions. Deadly military strikes on foreign countries. Innocent civilian lives lost to war. Aggressive ICE raids. Government officials accused of using their powers to intimidate political opponents. Public office increasingly entangled with private financial interests. Government leaders who glorify violence, spew hatred, stir up racial prejudice, provoke civil unrest, and stoke discontent.
This is what it looks like when a nation loses its way. When cruelty is mistaken for courage, vengeance for justice, and the taking of human life for a demonstration of strength. When government officials tell you not to believe your own eyes and ears about the state of the world around you, when they insist that the truth is a lie and the lie is truth, you’ve stumbled into a dystopian reality in which, as John Lennon rightly concluded, the government is “being run by maniacs for maniacal ends.”
When so-called Christians and self-professed defenders of morality insist that we must accept the lesser of two evils based on exaggerated fears of what might happen if their political opponents gain power, rather than confront the abuses unfolding before our eyes, remember this: the lesser of two evils is still evil.
This is not simply about Donald Trump. The machinery of the American police state has been assembled over decades, under Republican and Democratic administrations alike. Presidents have expanded executive authority, waged undeclared wars, authorized drone killings, built surveillance networks, militarized domestic policing, and invoked national security to justify extraordinary powers.
What makes the present moment so troubling is the extent to which the public is encouraged to accept increasingly aggressive exercises of government power as necessary demonstrations of strength and resolve. The Constitution was never intended to protect only the innocent, the popular, the patriotic, or the politically acceptable. Its restraints on government power matter most when the government is dealing with people whom society has already condemned.
Yet what happens when the public becomes so accustomed to government overreach, corruption and brutality that it no longer recognizes them as warning signs? What becomes of a constitutional republic when its leaders and citizens stop asking whether government actions are lawful, justified or necessary, and concern themselves only with whether those actions punish their enemies, advance their political interests or preserve their sense of security?
We are witnessing a political culture in which demanding due process for an accused criminal is treated as defending criminality, questioning a military strike is equated with sympathy for the enemy, and opposing government cruelty is portrayed as weakness. The government doesn’t have to abolish the Constitution outright when it can persuade the public that certain people should no longer be entitled to its protections. That is how constitutional rights cease to be rights at all and become privileges granted or withdrawn at the government’s discretion. And that is how a population becomes conditioned to accept the unacceptable.
We’re living in two worlds. There’s the world we see - or are made to see - and then there’s the one we sense and occasionally catch a glimpse of, which bears little resemblance to the propaganda-driven reality manufactured by those in power and amplified through an increasingly fragmented media landscape. Indeed, what most Americans perceive as life in America - privileged, progressive and free - is a far cry from the reality of a nation where economic inequality persists, government power continues to expand, and freedom is increasingly subjected to the demands of surveillance, security and control.
All is not as it seems. Monsters with human faces walk among us. Some of them wield extraordinary government power. This is the premise of John Carpenter’s film "They Live," released in November 1988, which remains unnervingly, chillingly appropriate for our modern age."
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"Is It Blasphemy Or Is It Just Trumpslop? Is He Trump the Great Healer and Savior or Trump the Destroyer? History Will Reveal The Truth"
"Is It Blasphemy Or Is It Just Trumpslop? Is He Trump the Great
Healer and Savior or Trump the Destroyer? History Will Reveal The Truth"
"In a sure sign that Donald Trump is in desperation mode less than three weeks before the Nov. 3 midterm elections, he’s again rolled out his infamous AI video suggesting that he is the “Chosen One” of God to save America. The bizarre “So God Made Trump” video was first used in 2024, and was played again at the Republican midterm convention last month in Dallas. Trump re-released it today on his Truth Social platform.
This video is perhaps Trump’s most over-the-top caricature of himself as a messiah sent by God to save America. And that’s saying a lot, since he once released an image, above, of himself dressed in a Christ-like white robe with red sash claiming to be the healer of mankind.
The video, produced with AI using the fake AI-produced voice of conservative commentator Paul Harvey (who died in 2009), portrays Trump as created and chosen by God specifically for the purpose of saving America and thus the whole world from destruction.
It would be impossible for any true Christian to view this video and not recoil at the preposterous suggestion that Trump is an archetype of an Americanized Jesus Christ. Fighting corruption and the deep state. This might have played well among his base in 2024. But in 2026 it is laughable. He’s not made a single deep-state arrest, refused to prosecute anyone in the Epstein files, and most recently said Hillary and Obama won’t face any legal ramifications for their alleged misdeeds while in office.
There is so much that is downright cringeworthy about this video that I will not waste your time going into it. You can watch it for yourself below.
But there is a section that goes beyond cringe into the realm of blasphemy against the one and only God of the Universe and his Son Jesus Christ. The section I’m talking about comes at the 1:33 mark of the video where it says “God said” he wanted a man who “cares for his flock, a shepherd to mankind who will never leave nor foresake them… So God made Trump.” Jesus Christ, the actual Son of God and Savior of mankind, is described in the Bible as the “Good Shepherd” who tends his Father’s flock and will “never leave nor forsake” his followers.
Trump is expropriating the qualities of Jesus Christ and applying them to himself. This is serious stuff folks. You can’t just dismiss it as Trump being Trump and trolling his political opponents. This is a special kind of evil. Even most evil men refrain from comparing themselves to God. Watch it below.
"RNC Midterm Convention - So God Made Trump"
Joel Bowman, "The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660 to 1783"
"The Return of Christopher Columbus"
by Eugène Delacroix, 1839.
"The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660 to 1783"
by Joel Bowman
“Successful colonization, with its consequent effect upon commerce and sea power, depends essentially upon national character; because colonies grow best when they grow of themselves, naturally.” ~ A. T. Mahan, "The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783", (1890)
Excerpt: Pipa Beach, Brazil - "Though few pause to appreciate it, we truly live in an Age of Wonders, one our ancestors could scarcely have dreamed of. When Christopher Columbus made his storied transatlantic voyage, sailing the oceans blue in 1492, he did so with three ships, perhaps ninety crew, and some seventeen-hundred gallons of water. Plus food. And tools. And weapons.The journey lasted 70 days in total; 36 days there, 34 on the way home. That is, for those who made the round trip...
When the flagship Santa MarÃa ran aground off the coast of Hispaniola, on Christmas Day, the commander was left in an unenviable predicament. With insufficient room on the remaining ships to accommodate all the men, Columbus ordered his crew to construct a fort from the wreckage. Appealing to Providence for good fortune, the post was named La Navidad. Thirty-nine souls were left in defense of the makeshift settlement. When Columbus returned the following year, he found not one among the living.
Half a millennium and more since, today’s globetrotting travelers would consider the loss of roughly half their travel party to be more than a mere inconvenience. Indeed, it might even put a real dampener on the trip. Instead, we expect to board low-cost intercontinental flights... to connect the far-flung capitals of the world in hours rather than months... and to traverse the boundless cerulean with seat-back entertainment, ice-cold alcoholic refreshments, and wireless internet connectivity at our uncalloused fingertips.
For some, earthly travel has even become something of a banality, such that the new frontiers now extend far beyond this realm to include self-growing cities on the moon... and even the colonization of Mars. The world’s richest man, who claims that his company, SpaceX, will one day be worth more than the world’s entire GDP, wants to do both these things. Like intrepid explorers before him, he is chided for his audacious aspirations.
Perhaps it is simply part of the frontiersman’s nature, that he be part genius and part lunatic... one foot in this world, one in the next. And yet, where would we be without the visionaries and crackpots of the past, determined to go where no man had gone before?
What lessons can be gleaned from the voyages and discoveries of yore? How might The Influence of Sea Power Upon History (the title of A. T. Mahan’s seminal work) guide us as we peer over the next horizon? And how does the character of those explorers come to bear upon the success – or failure – of such ambitious expeditions?
Later this week, we’ll be joined by Byron King to discuss all this and more. A geologist, retired Navy officer and avid student of history, Byron earned his academic degrees from Harvard, the US Naval War College and the University of Pittsburgh. Needless to say, he has thought long and hard about this very subject.
In preparation for the conversation, Byron has nominated an excerpt from Mahan’s aforementioned work. The text will serve as the latest installment in our little series, "The Essayist", in which we examine works from the past in order to discover what drives history... and shapes the future. Think of it like a book club... but for essays. Over time, we hope to build a virtual library of these shorter texts, covering a whole range of topics, for your convenience. With all that, please enjoy the following essay and look out for our conversation with Byron, which we’ll publish later this week."
NB: The following excerpt, Chapter 1, Section V, is published as a public domain text. It is taken from Alfred Thayer Mahan’s original work, which is no longer protected by copyright.
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"Bank Of America Just Got Busted, Massive Financial Crimes Committed"
Jeremiah Babe, 10/14/26
"Bank Of America Just Got Busted,
Massive Financial Crimes Committed"
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"Disruptive Thoughts"
"Disruptive Thoughts"
by John Mauldin
"Physicists have a concept called “entropy,” which basically says systems will tend to move from orderly to disorderly over time. Entropy is central to physics, thermodynamics, and other fields of physical science. Economics, however, isn’t a physical science. The way we allocate scarce resources isn’t bound by fixed laws of the universe. We have some general principles that are mostly reliable, but not always and everywhere. The rules can change. I described one way in which they have. (For some reason, that letter provoked a lot of responses, voicing both approval and disapproval. I read every reply that I see. Thank you for sending them.)
At its best, economics delivers the opposite of entropy, harnessing chaos into orderly systems that create opportunities and raise living standards for everyone. Yet a type of entropy still seems to apply, because these systems eventually change. Without careful monitoring, they can become dead weight bureaucratic cash sinks.
There’s small change and big change. The small ones are notable: recessions, market crashes, etc. You’ll see several in your lifetime. The greater changes tend to be technology-driven: the Industrial Revolution, the internet, and now maybe artificial intelligence, robotics, and what I’ve called the Age of Transformation. When you are living through such change, it’s easy to get caught up in the moment. Change is hard. But it’s also inevitable, whether we like it or not. The good news: Most people will not only muddle through, but their lives will improve and the lives of the children will be even better. That’s what free market entrepreneurialism delivers.
Sometimes, however, life changes and some changes are hard. There’s no sugar-coating that. Likewise, the changes will be harder on some people than others. There’s no sugar-coating that, either. We just have to prepare as best we can. Today I’ll tell you about a time in the past when people faced a challenge similar in some ways to our own. Then we’ll talk about the differences.
Resistance Was Futile: Today we use the word “Luddite” to describe those who fear new inventions, fighting to avoid change however they can. But the Luddites were actual people in 19th-century England. And if you or I had faced what they did, we might not have liked it, either. Here’s a short description from History.com.
“The original Luddites were British weavers and textile workers who objected to the increased use of mechanized looms and knitting frames. Most were trained artisans who had spent years learning their craft, and they feared that unskilled machine operators were robbing them of their livelihood. When the economic pressures of the Napoleonic Wars made the cheap competition of early textile factories particularly threatening to the artisans, a few desperate weavers began breaking into factories and smashing textile machines. They called themselves ‘Luddites’ after Ned Ludd, a young apprentice who was rumored to have wrecked a textile apparatus in 1779.
There’s no evidence Ludd actually existed - like Robin Hood, he was said to reside in Sherwood Forest - but he eventually became the mythical leader of the movement. The protestors claimed to be following orders from ‘General Ludd,’ and they even issued manifestos and threatening letters under his name.
The first major instances of machine breaking took place in 1811 in Nottingham, and the practice soon spread across the English countryside. Machine-breaking Luddites attacked and burned factories, and in some cases, they even exchanged gunfire with company guards and soldiers. The workers hoped their raids would deter employers from installing expensive machinery, but the British government instead moved to quash the uprisings by making machine breaking punishable by death.
The unrest finally reached its peak in April 1812, when a few Luddites were gunned down during an attack on a mill near Huddersfield. The army had deployed several thousand troops to round up these dissidents in the days that followed, and dozens were hanged or transported to Australia. By 1813, the Luddite resistance had all but vanished. It wasn’t until the 20th century that their name reentered the popular lexicon as a synonym for ‘technophobe.’”
I suspect the original Luddites didn’t fear technology so much as they feared losing their livelihoods. At the time, weavers were skilled craftsmen, often operating their own shops with a few apprentices. They were part of that era’s middle class, occupying a space below the aristocracy but above farm laborers. The idea of slipping down the ladder must have terrified them (not unlike today’s “knowledge workers” who do things AI is rapidly learning to do without human help).
Economic reality left few alternatives, though. The new technology was staggeringly more productive. According to one source I found, mechanized cotton spinning increased per-worker output around 500 times. The cotton gin removed seeds from cotton about 50 times faster than a human could. These weren’t small differences. They were revolutionary to the same degree AI is revolutionary when it produces in a few seconds a legal document (to name just one example) that would have taken a human attorney days to produce.
Gradual or Sudden: I imagine the weavers back then pointed to the machinery’s flaws and mistakes. “See, we can do it better!” That was probably true but also irrelevant. At some point, higher productivity outweighs lower quality. Machine quality improves, though, eventually surpassing even the best human experts. This gives everyone access to get better products at lower prices. Two things happen during these periods of revolutionary technological change: Higher productivity leads to innovation that makes life better, and those same productivity gains cost some people their jobs or income.
These two changes - one good, one bad - happen at the same time. But in any given household, one of them predominates. Those rendered jobless don’t get to enjoy the fruits of innovation. Meanwhile, those who become more productive may forget the other group’s misery. Not surprisingly, conflict often follows.
The Luddite violence occurred in the early 1800s, a period we now call the First Industrial Revolution. The innovations it launched would enhance everyday life for everyone. But it was the Second Industrial Revolution, beginning around 1890 and extending into the Roaring 1920s, before the new technologies reached most people. In between was a long period of adaptation.
The adaptation period, while often uncomfortable, allowed enormous change to unfold gradually. Some groups like the Luddites saw their lives upended quickly but others had time to adjust. They were able to learn new skills, relocate to places with more opportunity, and otherwise find a way forward in a different kind of economy. We went from an agrarian economy where 90% of the people worked producing or moving food in Colonial America. By 1860 it was 53%, down to 23% in 1940, and less than 2% today. By the way, that 2% today represents more than 2 million farms. The growth in agricultural productivity is utterly astounding. Labor use is down by 80% or more. You can read about it here.
Note that this massive shift happened over almost 10 generations. People had a lot of time to adapt their economic circumstances even though it was always individually challenging. Electricity was a huge change but took multiple decades to show its true impact. Ditto for trains and then the automobile.
Today’s workers may not have that luxury. A faster pace of technological change means many kinds of jobs are being replaced faster than the economy can provide new ones for the displaced. And this time, young workers and those with fewer skills are bearing the brunt of the change.
In writing this letter, I did some browsing on jobseeker bulletin boards. I saw many examples of experienced technology workers in their 40s and 50s (and a few in their early 60s) who had been laid off, presumably because new technology had outmoded them. While they wanted to find new roles, few seemed desperate. Many even talked about the large portfolios they had accumulated in their apparently well-paid careers. Some owned their homes mortgage-free. Most were prepared to wait and, if necessary, just retire early.
In contrast, AI is wreaking havoc on job prospects for young workers, particularly recent college graduates. They prepared for a world in which companies hired large numbers of young professionals to do the “grunt” work of programming, analyzing numbers, writing reports, etc. Those jobs still exist, but AI tools mean there are far fewer of them than even 2–3 years ago. This is one reason unemployment is far worse for younger cohorts.
While higher unemployment for young workers isn’t new, it is unusual to see it rising so much faster than in the 25–54 and 55+ cohorts. This strikes me as an important difference from the Luddite example. Back then, the middle-aged craftsmen had the most to lose. They had invested a lifetime in mastering skills the new technology threatened to kill. Today, many older workers (though certainly not all) are better positioned to endure disruption than the young ones. And ironically, the younger ones are far more likely to embrace the technology that is taking their jobs.
Historically, having a large population of economically distressed young adults, especially young males, isn’t great for social stability. It would help if more could be attracted into the kind of work AI hasn’t yet reached – the construction trades, for example. But those who invested years in earning a college degree - and may have large student loan debts - are naturally hoping to find a job in the field they prepared for. As noted, the real key is timing. Will AI unlock new kinds of growth that create enough jobs to absorb those it displaces? I feel sure it will, but I don’t know how soon.
Asymmetric Gains: Dave Rosenberg published a piece I need to think about and perhaps write about in a future letter. Briefly, he thinks the business cycle of expansions and recessions is no longer delivering useful investment signals. Structural “mega-forces” are reshaping markets in ways cycles alone can’t explain. He then lists several such forces, the first being AI. Here’s Rosie: “Today’s breakthroughs have so far been narrower and clustered. Semiconductors, hyperscale cloud capacity, and applied AI models absorb the bulk of capital flows, while most industries remain only marginally affected. The result is highly concentrated productivity and profitability - a widening divergence between firms able to harness AI at scale and those left behind.
Early adoption has created exponential gains for chipmakers, hyperscalers, and software leaders. Retail, Hospitality, Health Care, and other service-heavy sectors have lagged substantially. AI looks less like a rising tide than a powerful wave lifting a few boats. Yet, diffusion is inevitable: logistics optimization, medical imaging, algorithmic lending, and personalized education. The eventual scope will be broad, as it has been with every general-purpose technology, but the path there is jagged and contested.
The macroeconomic effects are profound. Automation dampens labor market cycles by reducing the elasticity of headcount to demand swings. Firms that deploy AI in coding, call centers, or logistics need fewer workers during downturns and can scale without proportionate hiring in upswings. This suppresses wage-driven inflation and makes employment less reliable as a growth signal. At the same time, productivity gains accrue asymmetrically, reinforcing the gap between winners and laggards.”
To summarize that last paragraph: Technology-driven productivity enhancement is separating employment growth from economic growth. That’s true at both the macro level and for individual companies. In the long run, this is probably good. Population growth is slowing and will turn negative soon (absent more immigration). We need higher productivity to maintain economic momentum. But again, it’s not enough to have a job for every worker. They have to be the kinds of jobs those workers can do, located in places the workers want to (and can afford to) live.
AI is only one of many significant disruptions ahead. Ultimately, almost all will be positive for mankind. In the short run it will be individually disruptive, as it was for early 1800s textile workers. Robotics really will take jobs in a wide variety of fields. And not just at work. Housework, caring for the elderly, healthcare, agriculture, and more. All those jobs are at risk. But affordable robots will also give entrepreneurs the opportunity to create whole new businesses, serving the public with better products at lower costs. And those new businesses will need human employees. Similarly autonomous vehicles will take jobs, but the increased productivity and dramatic drop in fatal accidents will ensure that it happens.
The next 10 years will see astounding gains in healthcare. We are on the cusp of extending health span significantly, with increased lifespan following shortly. All these technologies and more are going to happen in less than a generation. It will be a disruption we have never encountered in terms of the speed of different technologies reaching ubiquity. This will happen as a witch’s brew of politicians promise to “protect” various jobs and industries. There will be calls to have the government “do something.” There is a role for government, but in helping people transition to a new future, not protecting old jobs.
This is all going to happen at the same time as we have geopolitical crises, sovereign debt problems, and the social crisis stemming from generational leadership changing (Neil Howe’s "The Fourth Turning"). Clashes caused by the over-production of elites vying for power (Peter Turchin’s "End Times"), and young people not trained for the future we will actually experience will all come together in the latter part of this decade. Buckle up. We all need to figure out how to be part of the solution."
"Snyder Reports, 10/14/26"
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Snyder Reports, 10/14/26
"Social Security COLA Just Announced -
What You Need To Know Now"
The 2027 Social Security COLA is official - 3.6%, the highest in four years. Here's exactly how much more you'll get every month, and why inflation already eats it. In this social security update, we break down the confirmed 2027 cost-of-living adjustment, the average $900 per year / $75 per month increase for retirees, the new $192,300 Social Security tax cap (up from $184,500), September CPI at 3.7% driven by gasoline up 9.1%, what Medicare cost increases mean for what you actually keep, and why 0.9 points over projection accelerates the trust fund timeline from 5-6 years to 4-5 years. Learn what the Social Security COLA 2027 means for social security benefits, SSI, SSDI, and your 2027 budget, plus food, shelter, used cars, and apparel inflation to watch next.
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Snyder Reports, 10/14/26
"It's Starting Again:
Companies Are Laying Off Thousands of Workers"
"The next round of layoffs is happening now. Netflix just announced 6% cuts, Kroger is cutting 3,000 corporate jobs for AI, and Silicon Valley has already shed 14,000 jobs. In this video I break down why tech layoffs are accelerating, what Elon Musk's warning about ai taking jobs means for white-collar work in product, tech, HR and legal, why companies are skipping big holiday hiring, and who gets retained after Q4.This is not just cost-cutting — it's restructuring for AI. I'll show you what it means for your job, your money, and how to prepare for more layoffs 2026 and job cuts 2026."
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"Physics, Weapons, And A Very Brief Stress Analysis Of A Bra Clasp"
"Physics, Weapons, And A Very Brief
Stress Analysis Of A Bra Clasp"
by John Wilder
"I once had a professor that said, “If we would have waited to have mathematically understand how a cantilever beam works, we’d still be living in caves.” The Bernoulli Brothers (not named Mario and Luigi), Euler, and Coulomb figured it out, finally ending the mystery in 1773.
Notably, none of them lived in a cave. But they did come up with practical ways to make artillery, to make rifles and to make all manner of amazing inventions that were optimized for removing their fellow man from this plane of existence, and in some cases turning them into fragments so small and diffuse as to be beyond the capabilities of all the king’s horses and all the king’s men to figure out who they were. At least until DNA testing.
For the longest time, engineering beat physics. Just like the cantilever beam, what was practical was way ahead of what could be explained. Engineers could build stuff that physicists couldn’t explain, and physicists had to sprint to catch up.
They did, and certainly the biggest example of weaponized physics are nuclear weapons. Have an enemy? Let’s unleash the forces that transmute matter into their favorite restaurant and gently kiss the area of several megatons of canned sunshine. Oh, and the hard radiation. And the explosion. The first atomic bombs were built based on a theory, and followed up with an amazingly expensive research project that led to a first-time success. That’s worthy of a good grade, which is maybe why they called it the A-bomb. Me? I would have called it the A+bomb. Physics was now weaponized, and engineering had to work to catch up to the ideas.
Enter Eric Weinstein. Eric is primarily famous for being famous, but made money as an investor after getting a Ph.D. in mathematical physics. But in the “being famous” bit, he’s made several observations:
ͦ Physics has been stagnant since 1973,
ͦ Physicist Edward Witten “drove theoretical physics off the road and off a cliff” in the 1980s with String Theory™,
ͦ None of this was an accident, and,
ͦ You should buy his book.
I kid. He’s loaded and doesn’t need you to buy his book. Just listen to his podcast. Regardless, in there is an interesting assertion, and that is that physics was hijacked and slowed down. Now, how would that happen? Well, it would really be easy. Who pays the bills for physicists? Who writes the grants for physics? Who finances the projects?
That’s right. The United States government. And, you may not be aware of this, but if you find something particularly interesting in physics, it can be deemed top secret from the moment that it’s found. Yes. Uncle Sam is serious about his physics. And Weinstein kept coming back to this point that sharing certain just-discovered physics could make that physicist a criminal.
What if, stick with me, we developed something outstanding in physics that was not all that hard to figure out, but that amazing weaponization or strategic impact? I don’t know, maybe a quantum bomb that makes physicists leap, or a ray that turns everyone living in the Middle East into a PEZ©. There would be a strategic reason to make the Soviets and the ChiComs and, well, everyone waste their time on a specific branch of mathematical speculation that keeps them away from the PEZ™ ray.
Michio Kaku said that String Theory© was discovered “100 years too early” to test it. So, what better thing to waste time on than a pure mathematical construct? How to get them to study that? That’s the easy thing: spend money. It’s not even a lot of money, because physicists are used to being beaten up for their lunch money, so they have low expectations. Let’s assume this is true, at least for the post. It’s a big ask, I know, but it’s not like I’m asking you to pretend that diversity is our strength or that all white people are racist.
Let’s move to the next thread: A.I. has recently dropped 719 math papers that address over 4,000 open math problems. One mathematician even noted that one of the papers in particular would, if written by a human, be in the running for the Fields Medal®. The Fields Medal™ is like the Nobel Prize© for mathematicians, but it’s lighter because mathematicians have low upper body strength.
So, here’s where I attempt to bring it together. A.I. is doing math as well as the best mathematicians on Earth. Math is the tool chest that supports all of physics. If A.I. does math, A.I. can do physics. A.I. will soon be doing physics at the highest level, guided by humans free from constraints. If fundamental physics leads to the possibility more weapons, or wormholes, or other science fiction advances like, say, Nerf© cars for Asian women, our world could change overnight. I call dibs on the Nobel Prize® for that one.
When Vernor Vinge came up with the term “Singularity” to describe when the pace of change in the world, the level of novelty, becomes infinite. At that point, all bets are off. Is there fundamental physics that we have yet to discover or that we’ve hidden? If so, it might be that we’re at the edge of that vertical takeoff.
Thankfully, there were still fields of experimentation when I was young that weren’t suppressed by the government. For instance, my early research program conducting stress analysis on female undergarment fastening devices led to a paradoxical conclusion: Once the snap of the bra was released, theory said that the tension would likewise decrease. However, in my experience, in every instance tension increased, so theory was refuted by experiment. But that is another story."
Dan, I Allegedly, "They Never Saw This Coming"
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Dan, I Allegedly, 10/14/26
"They Never Saw This Coming"
"Artificial intelligence is changing the workplace, banking, business, and everyday life faster than many people realize. Kroger's planned corporate job cuts raise serious questions about AI replacing positions that once seemed secure. We also look at Jamie Dimon's concerns about AI agents accessing bank accounts, government spending on detention facilities, real estate developments, U.S. diesel exports, and the FCC's move involving political advertising. Plus, a surprising Bed Bath & Beyond coupon contest delivers a $500 gift card to one lucky viewer! What does all of this mean for your job, your money, your privacy, and the future of American business? On iAllegedly, Dan breaks down the business news, personal finance issues, artificial intelligence, employment changes, government spending, and economic developments you need to understand."
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Bill Bonner, "Budget Battle Looms"
"Budget Battle Looms"
by Bill Bonner
Ardmore, Ireland - "CNBC: "French student protests heat up as budget battle looms." We are looking for the real cause of the students’ discontent. Not coincidentally, we find other dots in the same constellation...including the general discontent of their parents - and why they are turning against mainstream candidates. And the big one is there too - the much-discussed ‘decline of the West.’ What is the pattern that connects them? A high confidence hunch - it’s a web of money; we are all stuck in it.
Few people don’t pay for their own children’s education...or for their own retirement or their own medical expenses. All are socialized. Which means, like pigs at the trough, what we get depends not on our own output, but on being able to push others away from the swill. There’s only so much of it. And those who get the most are a kind of swine elite. Every mother wants her children to be right there with them. The program works tolerably well - as long as the swill keeps coming. Alas, that is the problem du jour. For, like a box of cereal or a candy bar, public budgets are subject to shrink-flation.
Yesterday, we looked at it as a social phenomenon. Ambitious young people want to join the ranks of the deciders - the elites who decide who gets what in a socialized economy. But the economy is no longer growing fast enough to accommodate them all. And much of what the new junior varsity deciders would like to decide has already been decided for them by the senior team. .
Old people were promised pensions. Sick people were promised medical attention. The unemployed were given compensation. The unhoused were entitled to shelter. And now they jostle to get anything at all. In a free society people don’t need such big snouts. They do the best they can with whatever they have to work with. If they can’t afford to send their children to medical school, well...it’s nobody’s fault, if not their own.
Education, though, has long been socialized. In the US, it began in 1647 in the Massachusetts Colony, with the Old Deluder Satan Act, requiring towns to create ‘public’ schools. The idea was to make sure young people could read the Bible and thus defend themselves from the Devil. And today, the Prince of Peace has been removed from the curriculum, but American children can attend school for free through the 12th grade.
In France, free education has been extended all the way through to the top. Even medical school is mostly free. But then, doctors, working for the national health service, earn only about half as much as their US brethren.
We offer no opinion on which is the better system. But as we all know, there’s no such thing as a free medical school. And the people who pay for it are people who don’t wear stethoscopes around their necks. A further gratuitous opinion is that Satan is probably underrated. He is able to plant his delusions in the rich, heavily manured soil of the educated mind as well as, or maybe even better than, in the stony, ingrate head of unschooled voters.
After all, rare was the 21st century voter who had never known the joy of public education. But despite their enlightenment, they elected Bush, Obama, Biden and Trump, nevertheless. Could the uneducated yokel have done worse?
We don’t know. But it was college grads - including a whole phalanx of PhDs - who developed today’s funny money system. French leaders, as well as those in the US, found the fake money much more easily borrowed than the real stuff. Then, like a fat waiter on roller skates, they kept their tables richly served. And now, the interest on the public debt - that is, the carrying cost for promises made by previous deciders - is a big drag on current budgets...and a big part of the reason a ‘budget battle looms.’
The deVere Group: "France’s borrowing costs smashing through 5% is the starkest sign yet the world’s debt order has flipped, with rich nations now paying the kind of price once reserved for serial defaulters like Argentina. French politicians - just like their US counterparts - voted for programs France really didn’t need and couldn’t really afford. They still can’t pay for them. All they can do is to pay interest on the money borrowed to implement them.
And behold how the dots multiply and come together. ‘Elite overproduction’ - too many deciders! - slowing GDP growth. Aging populations (needing more pensions, more medical attention). Falling real wages. Rising interest rates on the debt. All of which leaves the deciders with less room for maneuver than ever...and less real money to maneuver with.
This is the real crisis. It is not, as Pete Hegseth advertises, that western governments are not manly enough or no longer have the stomach for public executions. It is not, as Marco Rubio insists, that we have lost the taste for the ‘unapologetic pursuit of national power.’
The real crisis is a financial one. Puffing out our chests...and perhaps depriving our minds of oxygen...we pursued national power with great elan and recklessness. We spent our own money, our children’s money, our grandchildren’s money...and money that no one will ever earn. And now, those young adults are getting the bills. They don’t much like it. Their parents don’t like it either. Their real earnings are falling. Their hopes of greatness are fading. And it looks like the public treasury - with all its funny money - may fail to cover their real retirement and medical costs as planned.
In effect, the fake money socialized everything. Costs that should have been paid years ago...misadventures that should have gotten the deciders publicly executed...and commitments that never should have been made at all - have all been socialized. It is asking too much of the voting public to study or understand what has happened. Instead, they will go to the polls and demand that politicians ‘do something’ about it. And what can they do, but borrow and spend even more?"
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Rolling Stones, "Sympathy For The Devil"
"The Coming Food Crisis May Look Nothing Like a Crisis Until It’s Too Late"
"The Coming Food Crisis May Look
Nothing Like a Crisis Until It’s Too Late"
by Madge Waggy
Excerpt: "Just after the morning deliveries and before the first customers, a supermarket looks both ordinary and slightly deceptive. The lights are on, the coolers hum, and the shelves hold exactly what they held last week. Strawberries show up in February, lettuce comes from ground that was desert two generations ago, and on the same shelf beef raised across three states sits beside bread baked from grain cut a thousand miles away. Someone pushing a cart through the whole store can finish the errand without once wondering how any of it got there.
That is part of why the American food supply is so easy to take for granted. Nobody praises the trucking fleets, the cold storage, the seed suppliers, or the packing houses, because a thing that rarely fails stops being noticed. Two or three generations have grown up treating food the way they treat running water: as a fact of the world, unremarkable and about as interesting.
Reliability, though, is not the same as resilience, and the two are easy to confuse because the difference only appears when something goes wrong. A farm can still bring in a decent harvest during a dry year, until that dry year coincides with expensive fertilizer, a thin labor crew, and a delayed shipment. Shelves can stay full while carrying fewer brands at higher prices. The country is not running out of food. What it may be running out of is the cushion that once let a bad season pass without anyone noticing.
This article rests on three kinds of claims, and it is worth keeping them apart. First come the demonstrated problems: measured facts about the age of farmers, the drawdown of aquifers, the concentration of meatpacking, the cost of inputs, the price of food. Then comes an interpretation, which is mine and can be argued with: the suggestion that these separate trends, taken together, are eroding the system’s ability to absorb a shock. Last come scenarios, which are conditional rather than predictive, describing what could happen over the next decade or two if several pressures arrive at once and little changes. The text will say which is which as it goes.
What follows is not a forecast of collapse. It is an attempt to look past the grocery aisle at the people who grow the food, the water and soil they depend on, the infrastructure that moves it, and the habits of a public that has rarely had a reason to worry."
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Tuesday, October 13, 2026
"Alert! Trump Announces Iran War 2.0 Imminent, No Ceasefire! Aramco In Flames! NATO WW3 Plan Reveal!"
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Canadian Prepper, 10/13/26
"Alert! Trump Announces Iran War 2.0 Imminent,
No Ceasefire! Aramco In Flames! NATO WW3 Plan Reveal!"
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Gerald Celente, "The Nobel Piece of Crap Prize Winner"
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Gerald Celente, 10/13/26
"The Nobel Piece of Crap Prize Winner"
"Gerald Celente breaks down the latest issue of The Trends Journal: Trump is angry he didn’t get the Nobel Peace Prize, the Iran War continues, oil remains in focus, and markets face growing uncertainty."
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Musical Interlude: Spirit Tribe Awakening, "Raise Positive Vibrations"
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Spirit Tribe Awakening, "Raise Positive Vibrations"
"528Hz Positive Energy, Self Healing with 417Hz Solfeggio frequency. Peaceful, empowering and soothing music and nature to nurture your mind, body, and soul. Supporting and empowering you on your life journey." I can't praise this visually beautiful, and very effective, video enough. In these incredibly highly stressful times, please be kind to yourself and take the time to savor this exquisite work in full screen mode. Headphones suggested but not necessary. It works, as simple as that...
- CP
"A Look to the Heavens"
"Have you ever seen the Pleiades star cluster? Even if you have, you probably have never seen it as large and clear as this. Perhaps the most famous star cluster on the sky, the bright stars of the Pleiades can be seen without binoculars from even the depths of a light-polluted city. With a long exposure from a dark location, though, the dust cloud surrounding the Pleiades star cluster becomes very evident.
The featured exposure covers a sky area several times the size of the full moon. Also known as the Seven Sisters and M45, the Pleiades lies about 400 light years away toward the constellation of the Bull (Taurus). A common legend with a modern twist is that one of the brighter stars faded since the cluster was named, leaving only six of the sister stars visible to the unaided eye. The actual number of Pleiades stars visible, however, may be more or less than seven, depending on the darkness of the surrounding sky and the clarity of the observer's eyesight."
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