"All of the available data show that the typical American citizen has about
as much interest in the life of the mind as does your average armadillo. "
- Morris Berman
Apologies to armadillos for the comparison...
So, we rise from the rubble...
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Saturday, August 2, 2025
"You Are About to Lose Your Job - Here's the Real Truth"
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Dan, I Allegedly AM 8/2/25
"You Are About to Lose Your Job -
Here's the Real Truth"
"The latest job numbers are in, and the truth might shock you! In today’s video, I’m breaking down the real story behind these shocking figures and what they mean for the economy, businesses, and YOU. From unexpected job revisions to the challenges facing industries like trucking and health insurance, things aren’t looking as rosy as some might want us to believe. We’re also diving into the latest on crypto mortgages, Denver’s controversial homeless hotel, and even wild recycling fraud schemes. Buckle up—there’s a lot to discuss!"
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"Assuming the Worst"
"Assuming the Worst"
by Todd Hayen
"I used to think that people were pretty smart. Meaning if I were walking down the street, or through a crowded mall, I could be pretty certain that most people I ran into were at a certain level of intelligence.
What do they say? That the average IQ is 100? And when you start getting really low in IQ, the number of people who have that lower IQ gets smaller and fewer in number. It is like the classic bell curve. The middle of the bell curve is the number of people with an IQ of 100; outliers on either side get lower or higher. That’s what I used to think.
For whatever reason, it felt safer knowing that most people you “saw” were not utter morons. Even if you had interactions with people in stores, or per chance bumping into someone and exchanging words, it was not like you were on some distant planet trying to have a conversation with a humanoid alien (or lizardman) who had zero experience communicating with a real human.
Don’t get me wrong. I use the phrase “utter moron” not out of disrespect for humans with low IQs. There was a time that psychologists actually used the terms “moron, imbecile, and idiot” officially to denote IQ levels. (Those with an IQ of 0 to 25, were called idiots, 26 to 50 were called imbeciles and 51 to 70 were called morons.) Of course, today these terms are considered offensive, so no longer used (except by insensitive dickwhacks like me). So, I don’t mean it offensively (well, maybe in the context of this article it is meant offensively).
Something I didn’t realize back then as well, is that what I was observing had little to do with IQ or intelligence. It was more about “common sense.” Sure, there are times where the degree of “common sense” is directly related to IQ or intelligence, but feeling safer around people with higher IQs really has never been a logical assumption. It was the “common sense factor”…CSF, rather than IQ, that made me feel more comfortable—an assumption, which back then was a plausible assumption, that most people had at least an average CSF. So, life went on this way. Living among other humans, more or less the same as me. Ha.
I have no way to know, however, if my assumption was accurate, but I think it was more accurate then than it is today. In fact, now there is no assumption that all of the people I run across in a casual way—in the mall, on the street, in a crowded theatre, etc.—have an average CSF. Actually, it is rather obvious they do not. And even if it is not visually or behaviourally obvious, I can be relatively certain most people I run across are below average on the CSF scale.
This conclusion I’ve come to I’ve based on the results of a concentrated effort I’ve made over the years (since 2019) to assess people and their actions and lack of understanding regarding Covid, vaccines, politics, world events, the New World Order efforts, etc. I am very sad to say my assessment has not come out very well.
Sure, I have no way to know if suddenly the human race has been affected by some space ray they all have been exposed to (ala the meteor shower in the Sci-Fi thriller of the ‘60s The Day of the Triffids) or if EMF, or 5G, or fluoride, or poisonous water, or vaccines, or drugs in general, or food, or whatever, has poisoned the minds of so many people. Or if this is a recent phenomenon, like DNA manipulation or spike protein affectation of the brain (however, if something that recent is the culprit, it would not explain why people took the Covid jab in the first place).
If people have indeed been affected for decades, then I was under a false illusion back when I was younger, assuming these crowds of people I routinely came into contact with were “safe”—more than likely they never were. However, TV, films, and whatnot always gave the impression (or at least most of them did) that average every day people were all relatively the same—they all had the same fears, the same desires, the same fallacies, and most importantly, the same level of common sense.
Just for yucks, let’s assume this reality—that most people are below an acceptable CSF—is rather recent. This assumption makes grappling with all this a little easier. It is then easier to realize the agenda’s hand in it all. Although the agenda has been working its black magic for decades, if not centuries (if not since Mr. Snake coerced Eve to eat his apple), let’s assume for a magic moment that most of this meddling is recent, meaning within the last 150 years, starting its major campaigns of manipulation during the first World War, and continuing in earnest throughout the 20th Century and now into the 21st. (As I write this, I realize it goes back, for certain, earlier than this, but bear with me).
So maybe, just maybe, the agenda’s influence on the average every day person has upped in magnitude during the last 30 years or so (that wasn’t that long ago), and it is an exponential “up”—meaning it has doubled in the last 10 years. So, the masses in my childhood were more “normal” than the masses now. Then there is more reason to “assume the worst” while walking down the street on a nice sunny day, and running into people who do not appear to be a problem, but could be completely inept if a problem came up.
So what? Well, if this is true, it means we have to be more on our toes than we think we need to be. We have to always have a plan if things go wrong, because more than likely the person next to you on the street or in the mall will not be able to help you. Is this a bad thing? Not necessarily.
The agenda has been trying for years to convince us that we are not in danger as long as they are there to assist us. No one needs to carry a gun, or have a weapon handy, because the criminals who are possibly around the corner will be quelled by the government’s efforts (police or whatnot).
There is no need to take responsibility for the safety of oneself or family because the government has that covered.
There is no need to take care of your own health, because the government-run healthcare system knows how to take care of us with more pills, more chemicals in the water and the air, etc.
You are safe, because the agenda makes you safe through its control over you and the environment.
In reality, you are not safe. Not at all. You need to be aware, be responsible, and think."
Adventures With Danno, "Grocery Shopping At Target, Different Food Options & Prices!"
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Adventures With Danno, AM 8/2/25
"Grocery Shopping At Target,
Different Food Options & Prices!"
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Travelling With Russell, 8/2/25
"Russian Typical Supermarket Tour (Not in Moscow)"
"What does a Russian typical supermarket look like inside? On this tour, we look inside a brand new supermarket opened only days ago. The store is part of the largest chain of supermarkets in Russia, with more than 20,000 locations."
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"Col. Douglas MacGregor: 'They Are All Dead, 1.8 Million Ukrainian Troops Killed'"
Redacted, 8/2/25
"Col. Douglas MacGregor:
'They Are All Dead, 1.8 Million Ukrainian Troops Killed'"
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“They have to find out where is the money going to. I believe President Zelensky said last week that he doesn’t know where half of the money is that we gave him. Well, we gave them, I believe, $350 billion, but let’s say it’s something less than that. But it’s a lot, and we have to equalize with Europe because Europe has given a very much smaller percentage than that. I think Europe has given $100bn and we’ve given, let’s say, $300-plus, and it’s more important for them than it is for us. We have an ocean in between and they don’t. But where is all the money that’s been given? Where is it going? And I’ve never seen an accounting of it. We give hundreds of billions of dollars.” - US President Donald Trump
$350 billion...while America is going straight to Hell, fast...
Friday, August 1, 2025
"A Look to the Heavens"
“Far beyond the local group of galaxies lies NGC 3621, some 22 million light-years away. Found in the multi-headed southern constellation Hydra, the winding spiral arms of this gorgeous island universe are loaded with luminous young star clusters and dark dust lanes. Still, for earthbound astronomers NGC 3621 is not just another pretty face-on spiral galaxy. Some of its brighter stars have been used as standard candles to establish important estimates of extragalactic distances and the scale of the Universe.
This beautiful image of NGC 3621 traces the loose spiral arms far from the galaxy's brighter central regions that span some 100,000 light-years. Spiky foreground stars in our own Milky Way Galaxy and even more distant background galaxies are scattered across the colorful skyscape.”
- http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap090919.html
"Well, It Is Our Fate..."
"Well, it is our fate to live in a time of crisis. To live in a time when all forms and values are being challenged. In other and more easy times, it was not, perhaps, necessary for the individual to confront himself with a clear question: What is it that you really believe? What is it that you really cherish? What is it for which you might, actually, in a showdown, be willing to die? I say, with all the reticence which such large, pathetic words evoke, that one cannot exist today as a person, one cannot exist in full consciousness, without having to have a showdown with ones self, without having to define what it is that one lives by, without being clear in ones mind what matters and what does not matter."
- Dorothy Thompson
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“When the pain of leaving behind what we know outweighs the pain of embracing it, or when the power we face is overwhelming and neither flight nor fight will save us, there may be salvation in sitting still. And if salvation is impossible, then at least before perishing we may gain a clearer vision of where we are. By sitting still I do not mean the paralysis of dread, like that of a rabbit frozen beneath the dive of a hawk. I mean something like reverence, a respectful waiting, a deep attentiveness to forces much greater than our own.”
- Scott Russell Sanders
Folks, I fear our time for such reverence has come.
And so, we bravely face it. God help us, God help us all...
"They Can Shut Down The Entire Financial System By Pushing A Button"
Jeremiah Babe, 8/1/25
"They Can Shut Down The Entire
Financial System By Pushing A Button"
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"Alert! Trump Sends 200 Nuclear Warheads To Russian Coast!"
Prepper News, 8/1/25
"Alert! Trump Sends 200 Nuclear
Warheads To Russian Coast!"
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"The Genesis & The Whistleblower"
"The Genesis & The Whistleblower"
by Paul Rosenberg
"Again declassified documents have been released (one set from Senator Grassley and another, again, from Ms. Gabbard, the Director of National Intelligence) detailing the course of a slow coup at the highest levels of the US government, including the intelligence infrastructure. In this set (released July 30, 2025), we see the genesis of the whole “Russia Hacking The Election” scam, as well as a detailed statement from a senior intelligence official who objected to the things being done. Again I’ll be brief and give you the most important snips:
How It Started: The Russia hoax began with Hillary Clinton, as a distraction from revelations about her illegal and bizarre email server. More or less anyone else would have gone to jail for what she did (sending classified materials over an unsecured and trivial to hack private server), and it was threatening to hurt her presidential campaign quite badly.
This release displays the actions she and her staff took, as well as those of the Soros group, with whom she was directly and very closely connected. Please download the original and see this for yourself. Here are the essential passages:
Barack Obama sanctioned the use of all administrative levers to remove possibly negative effects from FBI investigation of cases related to the Clinton Foundation and the email correspondence in the State Department.
The FBI does not possess any kind of direct evidence on Clinton, because of their timely deletion from the email servers.
Julie [Hillary Clinton’s Campaign Advisor] says it will be a long-term affair to demonize Putin and Trump. Now it is good for a post-convention bounce. Later the FBI will put more oil into the fire.
HRC [Hillary Rodham Clinton] approved Julie’s idea about Trump and Russian hackers hampering U.S. elections. That should distract people from her own missing emails.
Due to the lack of direct evidence, it was decided to disseminate the necessary information through the FBI-affiliated “attic-based” technical structures that are involved in cyber security, in particular the Crowdstrike and ThreatConnect Companies, from where the information would then be disseminated through leading US publications.
POTUS and VPOTUS [Barack Obama and Joe Biden] have acknowledged the fact that IC [Intelligence Community] would speed up searching for evidence that is regrettably still unavailable… in the absence of direct evidence, Crowdstrike and ThreatConnect will supply the media.
The Whistleblower: Please download the original and see it for yourself. Here again are snips, which I’ll again allow to stand without comment:
From 2015 to 2020 I served as a Deputy National Intelligence Officer at the National Intelligence Council… I led the production of the Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) on Cyber threats to the 2016 Presidential Election.
The DNI [James Clapper] stated that then-President of The United States (POTUS) Obama had urgently requested a comprehensive analysis on election security. I was pressured to alter my views on the 2017 ICA’s Key Judgments, with the expressed intent that my concurrence was sought to enable to sway the views of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA).
Statements to me in early January 2017, regarding the 2017 ICA were: There is reporting you are not allowed to see. If you saw it, you would agree. Isn’t it possible that Putin has something on Trump, to blackmail and coerce him? You need to TRUST ME on this… [He or she] further reiterated that I abandon my tradecraft standards… and stated that I would need to demonstrate my ability to “outgrow” [those standards] in order for [them] to recommend my promotion to a Senior Executive Service [SES] position. (now visibly frustrated) I need you to say you agree with these judgments, so the DIA will go along with them!
I was aware that I was defying the NIO’s direction to me (to misrepresent my views to DIA) based on a conscious decision to adhere to IC standards, tradecraft and ethics. I… also judged that the 2017 ICA’s treatment of overt media activities was omitting important context. In response, [REDACTED] actively pressured me to change my judgments, and stated clearly and directly to me that sought my concurrence as a means to persuade the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) so that DIA would provide their concurrence.
National Intelligence Council leadership dismissed my concerns regarding potential deliberate deception of Intelligence Officers by a NIO and of possible attempts to bias analysis. I judged that other violations of IC analytic integrity almost certainly occurred, that violations of the law might have occurred, or that there might have been attempts to undermine tradecraft or to bias NIO analysis.
Implications: As I noted in our previous post, the implications of these releases may be so large that many Americans will look for one excuse after another to close their eyes to them. And so we must prevent willful blindness by spreading this evidence as widely and repeatedly as possible. Thanks."
"Anyone Who Isn't Confused..."
"Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation."
- Edward R. Murrow
“Before the Leaves Fall From the Trees”
“Before the Leaves Fall From the Trees”
by Simon Black
"The morning of June 28, 1914 began like any other normal day. It was a Sunday, so a lot of people went to church. Others prepared large meals for family gatherings, played with their children, or thumbed through the Sunday papers.
At that point, tensions had been high in Europe for several years; the continent was bitterly divided by a series of complex diplomatic and military alliances, and small wars had recently broken out. Italy and the Ottoman Empire went to war in 1912 in a limited, 13-month conflict. And the First Balkan War was waged in early 1913. Overall, though, the continent clung to a delicate peace. And hardly anyone expected that most of the next three decades would be filled with chaos, poverty, and destruction. And then it happened.
That Sunday afternoon, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire was assassinated during an official visit to Sarajevo. And the world changed forever. Five weeks later the entire continent was at war with itself. But even still, most of the ‘experts’ thought it would be a simple, speedy conflict. Germany’s emperor, Kaiser Wilhelm II, famously told his troops who were being shipped off to the front line in August 1914, “You will be home before the leaves fall from the trees...” It took four years and an estimated 68 million casualties to bring the war to a close. But that was only the prelude.
Following (and even during) World War I, a series of bloody revolutionary movements took hold in Europe, including in Russia, Greece, Spain, Turkey, and Ireland. Then came the Spanish flu, which claimed the lives of tens of millions of people. Later, Germany sunk into one of the worst episodes of hyperinflation in human history.
Communism began rapidly spreading across the world almost as quickly as the Spanish flu, often through violent fanatics who engaged in murder and arson in order to intimidate their opponents; this became known as the ‘Red Scare’ in the United States.
Of course there were some good years during the 1920s when people generally felt prosperous and happy; but it all came crashing down at the end of the decade when a severe economic depression strangled the entire world. It lasted for more than ten years, during which time the world was once again brought to an even more destructive war that didn’t end until atomic weapons obliterated the civilian populations of two Japanese cities.
Again – go back to June 1914. Who would have thought that the next 30+ years would play out so destructively? Even for the people who did predict that Europe would go to war in 1914, most leaders thought it would be over quickly. And almost no one expected it would spawn decades of chaos.
Today we’re obviously living in different times and under different circumstances. But we may be standing at a similar precipice as in 1914, staring at enormous trends that could shape our lives for years to come. Covid only scratched the surface.
We now know without a doubt, for example, how governments will respond the next time they feel there’s a threat to public health. They’ll say, “We’re listening to the scientists.” Really? The same scientists who told people they couldn’t go to work, school, or church, but it was perfectly fine for peaceful protesters to pack together like sardines without wearing masks because they’re apparently protected from the virus by their own righteousness? The same scientists who wanted to lock everyone down to prevent Covid, but were happy to accept skyrocketing rates of cancer, depression, suicide, heart disease, and domestic abuse as a result of those very lockdowns and so-called "vaccines'?
The public health consequences from this pandemic and "vaccine" will reverberate for years to come. And that doesn’t even begin to take the economic consequences into consideration. Western governments have taken on trillions of dollars in new debt this year and central banks have printed trillions more. Even with all that stimulus, however, there are still hundreds of millions of people worldwide who lost their jobs, and countless businesses that have closed.
Future generations who haven’t even been born yet will spend their entire working lives paying interest on the debts that are being accumulated today. The long-term consequences of all this are incalculable.
And then there are the social trends – the rise of neo-Marxism that’s sweeping the world so fast. It’s the Red Scare of the 21st century. They despise talented, successful people. They believe it’s greedy for you to keep a healthy portion of what you earn, but it’s not greedy for them to take it from you and spend it on themselves.
Many of the people in this movement, of course, are violent fanatics who routinely engage in arson, assault, and vandalism. Same for the social justice warriors who are just as quick to violence and intimidation; plus they’ve already commandeered the decision-making of some of the largest, most powerful companies in the world. You can’t even watch a football game or a TV commercial anymore without some commentary on oppression and victimization. And any intellectual dissent is met with intimidation or censorship.
In fact the largest consumer technology companies in the world have become our censors. We’re not allowed to share scientific information that doesn’t conform to the Chinese-controlled World Health Organization’s guidance. And news articles that don’t match their ideology are blocked.
Let’s not kid ourselves – these trends are not going away any time soon. It’s great to be optimistic, hope for the best, and enjoy the good years as they come. But it makes sense to at least be prepared for the possibility that we could be at the very beginning of a period of enormous instability that may last a very long time."
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"The Guns of August"
"In this landmark, Pulitzer Prize–winning account, renowned historian Barbara W. Tuchman re-creates the first month of World War I: thirty days in the summer of 1914 that determined the course of the conflict, the century, and ultimately our present world. Beginning with the funeral of Edward VII, Tuchman traces each step that led to the inevitable clash. And inevitable it was, with all sides plotting their war for a generation. Dizzyingly comprehensive and spectacularly portrayed with her famous talent for evoking the characters of the war’s key players."
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“It is history that teaches us to hope. It is well that war is
so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it.”
- Robert E. Lee
But we've learned nothing from history, nothing at all,
and our fondness, no, love of war, has only improved the weapons...
Judge Napolitano, "INTEL Roundtable w/Johnson & McGovern: Weekly Wrap 1 August"
Judge Napolitano - Judging Freedom, 8/1/25
"INTEL Roundtable w/Johnson & McGovern:
Weekly Wrap 1 August"
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Judge Napolitano - Judging Freedom, 8/1/25
"Scott Ritter: Trump Deploys Nuclear Subs
To Russia Over Social Media Rift"
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"Larry C. Johnson & Col. Larry Wilkerson: Iran Warns; Yemen Rewrites the Rules, Russia Snubs Trump"
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Dialogue Works, 8/1/25
"Larry C. Johnson & Col. Larry Wilkerson: Iran Warns;
Yemen Rewrites the Rules; Russia Snubs Trump"
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"Israel & US Agree: “Complete Ceasefire”, IDF Withdraws The Largest Division From Gaza"
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Mahmood OD, 8/1/25
"Israel & US Agree: “Complete Ceasefire”,
IDF Withdraws The Largest Division From Gaza"
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"How It Really Is"
"In individuals, insanity is rare;
but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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