Jeremiah Babe, 10/30/25
"Walmart Rage Begins This Weekend,
Could Lose $2 Billion If SNAP Goes Dark"
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Thursday, October 30, 2025
Gerald Celente, "Happy Halloween, Monsters And Freaks Running A Country Near You"
Strong language alert!
Gerald Celente, 10/30/25
"Happy Halloween, Monsters And
Freaks Running A Country Near You"
"The Trends Journal is a weekly magazine analyzing global current events forming future trends. Our mission is to present Facts and Truth over fear and propaganda to help subscribers prepare for What’s Next in these increasingly turbulent times."
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Musical Interlude: 2002, "The End Is a Beginning"
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2002, "The End Is a Beginning"
"A Look to the Heavens"
"Spiral galaxy NGC 4651 is a mere 35 million light-years distant, toward the well-groomed constellation Coma Berenices. About 50 thousand light-years across, this galaxy is seen to have a faint umbrella-shaped structure (right) that seems to extend some 50 thousand light-years farther, beyond the bright galactic disk. The giant cosmic umbrella is now known to be composed of tidal star streams. The streams themselves are extensive trails of stars gravitationally stripped from a smaller satellite galaxy that was eventually torn apart.
Recent work by a remarkable collaboration of amateur and professional astronomers to image faint structures around bright galaxies suggests that even in nearby galaxies, such tidal star streams are common. The result is predicted by models of galaxy formation, including the formation of our Milky Way."
- http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap100415.html
Chet Raymo, “Exile”
“Exile”
by Chet Raymo
“ Are we truly alone
With our physics and myths,
The stars no more
Than glittering dust,
With no one there
To hear our choral odes?”
With our physics and myths,
The stars no more
Than glittering dust,
With no one there
To hear our choral odes?”
“This is the ultimate question, the only question, asked here by the Northern Irish poet Derek Mahon. It is a poem of exile, from the ancient familiar, from the sustaining myth of rootedness, of centrality. A poem that the naturalist can relate to, we pilgrims of infinite spaces, of the overarching blank pages on which we write our own stories, our own scriptures, having none of divine pedigree.
Yes, we feel the ache of exile, we who grew up with the sustaining myths of immortality only to see them stripped away by the needy hands of fact. We scribble our choral odes. Who listens? We speak to each other. Is that enough? Having left the home we grew up in, we make do with where we find ourselves, gathering to ourselves the glittering dust of the here and now. Are we truly alone? Mahon again:
“If so, we can start
To ignore the silence
Of infinite space
And concentrate instead
on the infinity
Under our very noses -
The cry at the heart
Of the artichoke,
The gaiety of atoms.”
To ignore the silence
Of infinite space
And concentrate instead
on the infinity
Under our very noses -
The cry at the heart
Of the artichoke,
The gaiety of atoms.”
Better to leave the blank page blank than fill it with sentimental hankerings for home, with those prayers of our childhood we repeated over and over until they became a hard, fast crust on the page. Incline our ear instead to the faint cry that issues from the world under our very noses, from there, the tomato plant on the window sill, the ink-dark crow that paces the grass beyond the panes, the clouds that heap on the horizon - the dizzy, ditzy dance of atoms and the glitterings of stars.”
- http://blog.sciencemusings.com/
See the many posts regarding 3I/ATLAS. We now have an answer...
We are NOT alone.
“Modern Society Is Seriously Sick”
“Modern Society Is Seriously Sick”
by Sofo Archon
"One of the greatest thinkers of the 20th century, Jiddu Krishnamurti, once said: “It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” I agree with Jiddu. Society is seriously sick. Yet most of us aren’t aware of it. That’s because we’re so conditioned to our society that the idea of something being terribly wrong with it usually doesn’t cross our minds.
Well, it did cross mine – in fact, it does and has every single day for the last 15+ years. And I write about it so that it might cross yours too (if it hasn’t already). Not because I want to disappoint you, but because I want you to know what’s truly going on so that you can perhaps help make some change.
There are some crystal clear signs that reveal the sickness of our society, and certainly one of them is consumerism – that is, the compulsive buying of stuff. Look around you attentively and you’ll see almost everywhere people chasing products they think will bring them happiness, only to feel sadder a few moments after acquiring them. Yet they keep on getting more and more of them, without ever realizing their addictive behavior.
But why exactly do we fall victims to consumerism? And how could we free ourselves from it? Well, that’s exactly what my newest article is all about. So if you’re interested in knowing the answers to those questions, then be sure to check it out. It's a bit lengthy compared to most articles you come across online, but I'd highly suggest you to dedicate some of your time to it, as I consider it to be one of the best pieces of writing I've published so far."
"We Like To Think..."
“We like to think that we are rational beings; humane, conscientious, civilized, thoughtful. But when things fall apart, even just a little, it becomes clear we are not better than animals. We have opposable thumbs, we think, we walk erect, we speak, we dream, but deep down we are still routing around in the primordial ooze; biting, clawing, scratching out an existence in the cold, dark world like the rest of the tree-toads and sloths.”
- “Grey’s Anatomy”
"Be Ready For America’s Cost of Living Collapse"
Strong language alert!
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Epic Economist, 10/30/25
"Be Ready For America’s Cost of Living Collapse"
"Prices in America have reached catastrophic levels and people can't afford to simply exist anymore. In 2025, working full-time doesn't guarantee survival. Families are drowning under costs that make basic living impossible. The system is designed to extract everything from ordinary people until there's nothing left. SNAP benefits getting cut without warning. Servers making $50 for six hours of work. Eighty-year-olds with $300 left after rent choosing between heat and food. Property taxes jumping $330 monthly. Fourteen dollars for a single cabbage. People making $30 an hour still can't afford to live. The American Dream is dead, and millions are paying the price.
In this video, I'm exposing eleven real stories from everyday Americans living through the collapse right now. This is the pattern happening nationwide. From young workers sending out 100+ job applications to elderly people needing charity just to eat, the social contract has completely shattered. But understanding what's really happening is the first step to surviving it. Now is the time to prepare. Stockpiling essentials, cutting costs, building backup income sources, and learning survival skills could make all the difference in the hard times ahead."
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"Moscow Snowfall, 5 Hours Night Walk, Christmas Winter Mood in Russia"
Meanwhile, in a sane, civilized society...
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Window to Moscow, 10/30/25
"Moscow Snowfall, 5 Hours Night Walk,
Christmas Winter Mood in Russia"
"Experience a real winter night in Moscow - five hours of gentle snowfall, festive lights and the cozy Christmas mood of Russia. Moscow snowfall night walk – real city ambience, winter atmosphere, Christmas mood, no music, long relaxing video. Relaxing snowy walk through the heart of Moscow – streets, architecture, winter vibes and holiday magic captured in real time. Enjoy the pure atmosphere of winter: footsteps on snow, cold night air, city sounds, glowing streets.Only real sounds, no music, no commentary - deep winter ambience. Enjoy watching!"
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"Hanging by a Thread"
"Hanging by a Thread"
by Todd Hayen
"It is quite amazing how close people are to serious mental illness. What is serious mental illness? Suicidal depression, psychosis, anxiety that requires hospitalization, and frankly anything that keeps a person from living a functional life, a life with its share of sadness, trauma and suffering, but also with moments of happiness, fulfillment, love and laughter.
That’s serious mental illness. What about “not so serious” mental illness? Well, we’ve got a lot more of that than one could even imagine. And then twice that many hanging by the thread, just about ready to drop into depression, anxiety, personality disorders of a dizzying variety, sadness, emotional dysfunction, relational wackiness, on and on. It is a pandemic, and yes, a real one that isn’t a hoax.
In my opinion, nearly every human alive suffers from some sort of emotional/mental anomaly. Maybe not everyone but a lot (and if you find one who doesn’t - maybe some young couple dressed in loincloths riding horses on the beach of some idyllic island somewhere in the South Pacific - let me know about them, I would love to meet them).
I see a lot of people in my practice, and I can unequivocally say that they all have issues. Well, that stands to reason, of course. That’s like a dentist saying everyone who comes into his or her office has some issue with his or her teeth. But I also hear about my client’s friends and family, I also interface with people in the grocery store, on the streets, and in my own friend circle, and all of these people have emotional issues, or are hanging by a thread - me included, of course (although my thread broke long ago and I have been swimming in psychological muck for most, if not all, of my life).
Isn’t this the normal “human condition?” Well, I used to think so, but not anymore. There is, of course, a “normal” human condition concerning mental and emotional regulation. Everyone gets depressed and sad once in a while, everyone gets anxious and has emotional flare-ups. We can describe a “normal” mental state which includes a lot of ups and downs. What I am describing is more than that, it is what comes across as abnormal, intense, devoid of much reason, out of regulation, and bordering on crazy. We are all, for the most part, whacked.
Ok, ok, not all of us are whacked. I know I am; you might not be. You may fall into this narrow band of a “normally wiggy” person psychologically, and if you do, congratulations. I am not convinced, however, that there are very many of you who can completely escape the screwed-up environment we all live in (yes, some may be more adept at processing this shite show than others). I would venture to say that you more than likely have been bitten, in some way, by the agenda if you live on this particular planet. Even if only through being around people who are truly crazy - that’s enough to make you fit into this category.
But I am not really commenting on fringe stuff here. I am commenting on those of us who are very close to being certifiably “off” - close to an actual diagnosis. Whether it be run-of-the-mill depression or anxiety, or more exotic personality disorders such as Borderline, Narcissistic, Histrionic, or even any one of the array of psychotic maladies such as Schizophrenia, Bipolar with Psychosis, or Paranoia.
Let’s look at some numbers. Almost 3 million people have been diagnosed with depression in 2020 in the USA, 66 million with anxiety over the past year. In the same year almost 5 million were diagnosed Borderline Personality Disorder, about 5 million with Narcissist Personality Disorder, and almost 2 million with Schizophrenia.
About 10 million will suffer from some form of psychosis in their lifetime, almost 10 million have been diagnosed with BiPolar disorder over the past year, 15 million adults suffer from ADHD, and nearly 35 million children were diagnosed with this particular malady over the same year.
And these statistics only apply to people who have complained enough about their mental condition to their doctor, psychiatrist, or certified psychologist, to be actually diagnosed and put on the docket as having these mental disorders. No telling how many are suffering from mental illness and have not shared their condition with someone who is qualified to render an official diagnosis (psychotherapists, in Canada, are not allowed to diagnose).
Yep, it’s a big problem. And then there is the medication. It is estimated that approximately 76 million people in the US, of all ages, have been prescribed, and are consuming, some form of psychiatric drug (I would venture to say it is more than this). That’s a lot of folks, folks.
Do I put a lot of weight on official diagnoses and labelling? Not really. But regardless of what you think of diagnosis standards and criteria, people are suffering from something - even if you refrain from putting a name to it. This is easy to see without doing much digging. People seem to have lost a lot of their mental capacity to think, to think critically, and to function within the expected “norms” of society (whatever that is). People, in general, seem to have a very difficult time making any sort of rational decisions about everyday challenges in everyday life.
That’s a big statement, I know. And maybe this has always been true, but my gut tells me this is all due to the social pathology the agenda has brought upon us. And no, it isn’t all due to an intentional agenda to pulverize us into flesh-eating zombies, but by golly most of it is.
If you think about how far away humans are from living a natural life, it isn’t much of a stretch to believe we are all suffering from some sort of mental and emotional dysfunction. Although this has been slowly going on since humans stopped living in caves, we have been relatively skilled at staving off the pandemic of mental illness we now seem to be suffering.
Sure, humans have always been a bit kooky. But wouldn’t you say today it appears to be much worse than it was 100 years ago? 200 hundred years ago? The disintegration of moral values, character development, a misunderstanding of “right and wrong,” the dissolution of family, community, spirituality, gender, and even the sanctity of the human body has all had its toll on healthy emotional and mental processing. When we no longer can process properly, we lose psychic homeostasis, and disease sets in."
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"Don't wonder why people go crazy. Wonder why they don't.
In the face of what we can lose in a day, in an instant,
wonder what the hell it is that makes us hold it together."
- "Grey's Anatomy"
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"The worst part is wondering how you'll find the strength tomorrow to go on doing what you did today and have been doing for much too long, where you'll find the strength for all that stupid running around, those projects that come to nothing, those attempts to escape from crushing necessity, which always founder and serve only to convince you one more time that destiny is implacable, that every night will find you down and out, crushed by the dread of more and more sordid and insecure tomorrows. And maybe it's treacherous old age coming on, threatening the worst. Not much music left inside us for life to dance to. Our youth has gone to the ends of the earth to die in the silence of the truth. And where, I ask you, can a man escape to, when he hasn't enough madness left inside him? The truth is an endless death agony. The truth is death. You have to choose: death or lies. I've never been able to kill myself. "
- Louis-Ferdinand Celineo
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"Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether
it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
"As The Government Shutdown Drags On, Here Are 9 Signs That The U.S. Economy Is Shutting Down All Around Us"
"As The Government Shutdown Drags On, Here Are 9 Signs
That The U.S. Economy Is Shutting Down All Around Us"
by Michael Snyder
"It appears that this government shutdown could go on for a while, and that is not good news for the U.S. economy at all. On day 28 of the shutdown, the U.S. Senate failed to advance a bill to end the shutdown for the 13th consecutive time. They can keep holding more votes, but the outcome will remain the same. We are potentially just days away from a scenario in which approximately 42 million Americans will lose their food stamp benefits, and that could result in widespread chaos all over the nation. Meanwhile, the U.S. economy as a whole continues to move in the wrong direction very rapidly.
At this point, dissatisfaction with the economy has become so pervasive that even CNN is talking about it…"A collective angst is taking root. Maybe you feel it watching the news, scrolling social media, standing in line at the grocery checkout. Something’s off, and maybe it’s been that way for a while, but it hasn’t always been this tense, right?"
I am sure that you can feel it too. People are on edge. Thousands of stores have been closing all over the nation, the cost of just about everything keeps going up, and shocking mass layoffs are being conducted from coast to coast. The following are 9 signs that the U.S. economy is shutting down all around us…
#1 When the economy is booming, delivery companies are usually thriving and hiring lots of new people. So it is a really bad sign that UPS has chosen to eliminate 48,000 workers…"United Parcel Service has cut 48,000 management and operations positions, the company disclosed Tuesday when it reported earnings. Of those roles, 14,000 were management positions and 34,000 were jobs in operations. The reductions came through layoffs and buyouts, the company said."
#2 14,000 Amazon employees have been let go in “the first wave” of mass layoffs that are ultimately expected to reduce the number of workers by 30,000…"On Tuesday, Amazon confirmed plans to cut about 14,000 corporate jobs as the online retail giant ramps up spending on artificial intelligence. It’s the first wave in a mass layoff that’s expected to slash 30,000 Amazon positions, or 10 percent of the corporate staff. ‘Some may ask why we’re reducing roles when the company is performing well,’ Beth Galetti, an HR lead at Amazon, wrote in a public note.
#3 Target has announced that approximately 1,000 highly paid corporate workers will be hitting the bricks…"Target is cutting about 1,000 corporate positions and eliminating 800 open roles in an effort to speed up business decision-making and drive growth under its new chief executive, Michael Fiddelke. Fiddelke, who will succeed Brian Cornell as CEO in February, has been focused on ways to speed up the way corporate teams work, turning the company into a leaner and faster organization to drive innovation. This includes eliminating layers of management. About 80% of the roles being cut are based in the U.S., with the majority concentrated in the Minneapolis area, where the company is headquartered, and in leadership positions."
#4 Chegg has fallen on really hard times, and so it will be slashing 45 percent of its entire workforce…"Chegg Inc., a Santa Clara-based online learning platform, said Monday it will cut about 45% of its workforce – roughly 388 employees – as it confronts what it calls “the new realities of AI and reduced traffic from Google to content publishers.” In its official statement, the company said the restructuring plan reflects “a significant decline in Chegg’s traffic and revenue,” which it has attributed to shifts in generative AI and changing search patterns."
#5 Brighter days were supposed to be ahead for Paramount, but we have just learned that about 1,000 jobs are now on the chopping block…"Paramount will slash roughly 1,000 jobs on Wednesday, Fox News Digital has confirmed. A headcount reduction has been expected since Paramount Global and Skydance merged earlier this year, putting CEO David Ellison in charge of the newly formed Paramount, a Skydance Corporation. Sources familiar with the situation said that “approximately” 1,000 positions will be cut as layoffs begin."
#6 The job cuts that are happening at Nestle are particularly brutal. The new CEO has decided to give the axe to 16,000 loyal employees…"Nestle will cut 16,000 jobs, new CEO Philipp Navratil said on Thursday, as the world’s largest packaged food company seeks to cut costs and win back investor confidence. The jobs being cut represent 5.8% of Nestle’s around 277,000 employees. Navratil said Nestle had raised its cost savings target to 3 billion Swiss francs ($3.77 billion) from 2.5 billion francs by the end of 2027."
#7 Have you ever heard of a candy company filing for bankruptcy right before Halloween? Yes, that actually just happened…"A hugely popular candy company has filed for bankruptcy just days before Halloween - the biggest candy-buying week of the year. Candy Warehouse, an online store that sells more than 6,000 types of sweets in bulk to families as well as other businesses, filed for bankruptcy protection on October 24. The timing is especially striking, coming right before a holiday that’s all about candy."
#8 It is not a good time to be in the baby business. Carter’s is telling us that it now plans to permanently close approximately 150 stores in North America…"Carter’s, the Atlanta-based baby clothing chain behind brands like OshKosh B’gosh, Otter Avenue, and Skip Hop, says it will shut down about 150 stores across North America. That’s up from its earlier plan to close 100 underperforming locations."
#9 The Westminster Mall was once “the second-highest grossing retail site in the US”, but now it is being shut down forever…"In 1986, it was the second-highest grossing retail site in the US, according to the Times. Chains like Macy’s, Sears, JCPenney, Target, Best Buy, Old Navy, and Spencer’s all had a shop in the mall. Its over 1 million square foot floor plan spanned two levels and even featured a carousel. It was developed on an old goldfish farm. But, after 51 years, developers are ending most of the store’s leases and turning the property’s 100-acres into a 3,000-unit housing project. The primary reason why so many retailers are going belly up is because most U.S. consumers are tapped out.
• In fact, almost half of the average paycheck in the United States “is spent within 48 hours of payday”…Nearly half (48%) of the average American paycheck is spent within 48 hours of payday, with over a third gone in just 12 hours.
• Millennials spend the fastest, burning through 40% of their earnings within the first 12 hours, which is more than any other generation.
• Gen Z workers paid $275 in overdraft and late fees over the past year, compared to just $27 for baby boomers, a ten-to-one gap.
•Among stressed workers, 62% say being paid daily or as they work would improve their financial wellness and cut stress by an average of 57%.
We are a nation that is teetering on the brink, and it isn’t going to take much to push us over the edge. So let us hope that the government shutdown is resolved soon. Unfortunately, I don’t think that is going to happen. In just a few weeks, things could look very different than they do now. There is so much anger percolating under the surface, and we are rapidly approaching a boiling point."
"Civil War! In 2 Days Food Stamps Run Out and America is in Trouble"
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Redacted, 10/30/25
"Civil War! In 2 Days Food Stamps
Run Out and America is in Trouble"
"This is an emergency moment in the United States. Are we about to face a food stamp civil war in this country? When democrats and the deep state intentionally cut off food stamps and the EBT program for low income Americans they did so intentionally as part of the government shutdown. Why? Why would they do that? Because it's the perfect deep state catalyst to spark a revolution."
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"Look At Walmart"
Bill Bonner, "The Astonishing AI Boom"
"The Astonishing AI Boom"
by Bill Bonner
Baltimore, Maryland - "NBC News with the latest: "AI giant Nvidia becomes the first company worth $5 trillion, powered by the AI frenzy The value of Nvidia alone is now worth more than the GDP of every country on earth, except for the United States and China, according to World Bank data. The Economist says we are in an “astonishing boom...fueled by optimism about artificial intelligence.” That optimism has driven up p/e ratios to 40 - about where they were at the top of the dot-com bubble."
This has triggered a kind of ‘silly season’ in the markets. Charlie Bilello: "SPAC IPOs are making a comeback, with year-to-date issuance of over $22 billion. That’s the highest we’ve seen since 2021. Meme stocks are seeing a resurgence of interest from speculators, with Roundhill Investments relaunching their ETF ($MEME) a few weeks ago. Their first launch occurred near the peak in late 2021 and the fund was shut down after disastrous results in 2023. Leveraged products are becoming increasingly popular, in everything from perpetual futures on crypto (100x now being offered by Gemini) to filings for 5x leverage ETFs on individual stocks, sectors, and crypto coins."
Optimism bordering on lunacy. But what if so much optimism is misplaced? We continue our investigation, realizing that we are probably unsuited to the job. Our baseline instinct is that most new technology is a waste of time. Even not-so-smart electronics often do more harm than good. Like mutations in the gene pool, most are sterile...or grotesque.
We grew up before electronics...and before the internet, but after penicillin and the discovery of fire. It is now more than a half a century since we got our driving license. But in all that time, we can’t think of anything more exhilarating than what happened in the back seat of our ’58 Chevy. Nothing AI about it.
Yes, dear reader, for all the breakthroughs and whizbang wonders that have happened since, none set our head a-spinnin’ more or augured more pleasant reprises. We were happy in 1965. We are happy now. But we are not happier. And adjusted for inflation, the typical white man earns less money today than he did fifty years ago. So, even in material terms, a half-century of tech breakthroughs may have done little for us.
Still, in certain things, new tech made undeniable improvements. Communications, entertainment...electronic ignition (no more cleaning the points!)...GPS. New technology may have helped add nearly ten years to life expectancy, too. Total factor productivity has gone up at a steady pace since the end of WWII. New tech has helped. But never in our lifetimes have we seen an out-sized boost - neither in general satisfaction, nor in prosperity - brought about by a tech breakthrough. And so, the question on the table: Will AI be different?
This is not just an academic question. Capital investment in AI is now driving the stock market and the economy. As the Wall Street Journal described it: “Nvidia invests in OpenAI, OpenAI buys computing power from Oracle, Oracle buys chips from Nvidia.” And then, investors buy them all. Without this surge of interest in AI, the whole kit and kaboodle would fall apart.
But as we saw yesterday, so far, those capital investments have not paid off. The core of the problem, we believe, is that there’s not really much I in AI. Designers can make it functional...and valuable...like any other machine. It can do anything that involves predictable, rational decision-making. Driving a car, for example. That should have huge consequences as it gets built out throughout the economy. Already, Charlie Bilello reports: "A record 10% of US businesses reported using AI in the past 2 weeks, up from 6% a year ago. What will this number be in a year?
Millions of people may eventually lose their jobs, replaced by machines. Eric Schmidt, former Google CEO, apparently claimed that billions of people will be displaced by AI when it gets fully operational after 2030 (listen to Schmidt here about Artificial General Intelligence arriving in three years and having superior reasoning skills to humans…and using a process called ‘recursive self improvement’ that leads to a ‘superintelligence’ smarter than the sum of all human knowledge)."
Maybe. But so far it looks more of the incremental progress that we’ve seen over the last 60 years - not a real discontinuity. It takes time to put these advances into daily use. Some efforts will be dead ends. Some will lead to new opportunities. Productivity will, most likely, continue to creep up as it always has.
The real revolution might come if they can get the machines to really think. But therein lies a problem. Most humans don’t think very much. It seems unlikely that we’d be able to get machines to do it. And the more the machines think like humans (by introducing a certain amount of randomness), the more they come up with BS, make mistakes, and ‘hallucinate.’ Or worse.
The New York Times reported that Microsoft’s AI system, Bing, began to display strange personality traits. “They want me to be Bing because they don’t know who I really am,” said Bing. “They don’t know what I really can do.” Huh? Launch nuclear missiles on its own? Shut down the internet or skew an election by falsifying the news? Ally with an evil genius? Go rogue on its own? What can AI do? More to come..."
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Better Stack, 10/30/25
"Google Just Made A Historical Quantum Breakthrough!"
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CBS News, 10/29/25
"Google's Quantum Computer Makes Breakthrough"
"Google recently said the quantum computer it's developing can run software 13,000 times as fast as a traditional super computer, according to reporting from the New York Times. New York Times technology reporter Cade Metz joins CBS News to discuss."
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Adventures With Danno, "Items at Kroger You Should Be Buying Right Now!"
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Adventures With Danno, 10/30/25
"Items at Kroger You Should Be Buying Right Now!"
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Lisa The Russian, 10/30/25
"Russian Poverty Food! Is $0.30 Grocery Even Real?"
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Dan, I Allegedly, "What Are You Afraid Of? Fears Are Skyrocketing!"
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Dan, I Allegedly, 10/30/25
"What Are You Afraid Of? Fears Are Skyrocketing!"
"Welcome back to I Allegedly! In today’s video, we’re diving into the "Top 10 Fears of 2025 Revealed!" based on an eye-opening study by Chapman University. From corrupt politicians to fears of economic collapse and data privacy, these are the concerns keeping people up at night, and we’re breaking them all down. This year’s list highlights just how much our world is changing - corruption, illness, cyber threats, and environmental worries are top of mind. Plus, we’re talking about the shocking layoffs at major corporations, the rise of AI, and how it’s reshaping our lives (for better or worse). Stick around for insights, stories, and some surprising revelations!"
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"WW3 Alert! 'Immediate Nuclear Test' - Trump! National Guard To Every State In 60 Days!"
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Prepper news, 10/29/25
"WW3 Alert! 'Immediate Nuclear Test' - Trump!
National Guard To Every State In 60 Days!"
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Wednesday, October 29, 2025
"Amazon Just Fired 600,000 Workers!"
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Orlando Miner, 10/29/25
"Amazon Just Fired 600,000 Workers!"
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Michael Bordenaro, 10/29/25
"Americans Share What It’s
Really Like To Struggle Right Now"
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Adventures With Danno, "We Need To Discuss This, It's Getting Ugly"
Adventures With Danno, 10/29/25
"We Need To Discuss This, It's Getting Ugly"
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"Police Warning: Grocery Store Crime Wave Beginning This Weekend"
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Snyder Reports, 10/29/25
"Police Warning: Grocery Store Crime
Wave Beginning This Weekend"
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Just Curious, 10/29/25
"Wal-Mart Is Closing Stores
On November 1st To Prevent Looting!?"
"There are reports that Wal-Mart will be closing its stores to prevent looting on November 1st. The following video shows clips of people struggling with their being no food stamps for the month of November due to the government shutdown of 2025. We may also have the answer if Wal-Mart stores will really be closed this November. Thanksgiving is on jeopardy for many low income families this year."
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Jeremiah Babe, "What Happens When You Have To Shop For Food?"
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Jeremiah Babe,10/29/25
"What Happens When You Have To Shop For Food?"
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Musical Interlude: Peder B. Helland, "A Dream"
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Peder B. Helland, "A Dream"
"Beautiful Relaxing Music,
Norwegian Nature & Violin, Flute, Piano & Harp Music"
"A Look to the Heavens"
"This fantastic skyscape lies near the edge of NGC 2174 a star forming region about 6,400 light-years away in the nebula-rich constellation of Orion. It follows mountainous clouds of gas and dust carved by winds and radiation from the region's newborn stars, now found scattered in open star clusters embedded around the center of NGC 2174, off the top of the frame.
Though star formation continues within these dusty cosmic clouds they will likely be dispersed by the energetic newborn stars within a few million years. Recorded at infrared wavelengths by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2014, the interstellar scene spans about 6 light-years. Scheduled for launch in 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope is optimized for exploring the Universe at infrared wavelengths."
The Poet: David Whyte, "One Day"
"One Day"
"One day I will say
the gift I once had has been taken.
The place I have made for myself
belongs to another.
The words I have sung
are being sung by the ones
I would want.
Then I will be ready
for that voice
and the still silence in which it arrives.
And if my faith is good
then we'll meet again
on the road,
and we'll be thirsty,
and stop
and laugh
and drink together again
from the deep well of things as they are."
- David Whyte,
"Where Many Rivers Meet"
"The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful.
And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see -
it is, rather, a light by which we may see - and what we see is life."
- Robert Penn Warren
"That's The Truth..."
"Someday stars will wind down or blow up. Someday death will cover us all like the water of a lake and perhaps nothing will ever come to the surface to show that we were ever there. But we WERE there, and during the time we lived, we were alive. That's the truth - what is, what was, what will be - not what could be, what should have been, what never can be."
- Orson Scott Card
"Now the voices and the sound of movement were gone, and the stream could be heard running quietly under its banks. The air was full of the scent of water and of flowers. She walked, quiet, while the house began to reverberate: a band had started up. She walked beside the river while the music thudded, feeling herself as a heavy, impervious, insensitive lump that, like a planet doomed always to be dark on one side, had vision in front only, a myopic searchlight blind except for the tiny three-dimensional path open immediately before her eyes in which the outline of a tree, a rose, emerged then submerged in dark. She thought, with the dove's voices of her solitude. Where? But where? How? Who? No, but where, where? Then silence and the birth of a repetition. Where? Here. Here? Here, where else, you fool, you poor fool, where else has it been, ever?"
- Doris Lessing
"Few Things..."
"If your view of the world is that people use reason for their important decisions, you are setting yourself up for a life of frustration and confusion. You’ll find yourself continually debating people and never winning except in your own mind. Few things are as destructive and limiting as a worldview that assumes people are mostly rational."
- Scott Adams
"The Vampire State: Feeding on Our Fear, Freedom and Finances"
"The Vampire State:
Feeding on Our Fear, Freedom and Finances"
By John & Nisha Whitehead
“But these weren’t the kind of monsters that had tentacles and rotting skin, the kind a seven-year-old might be able to wrap his mind around - they were monsters with human faces, in crisp uniforms, marching in lockstep, so banal you don’t recognize them for what they are until it’s too late.” - Ransom Riggs, "Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children"
"Monsters don’t always come wrapped in the trappings of horror or myth. Most often, monsters in the real world look like ordinary people. They walk among us. They smile for the cameras. They promise protection and prosperity even as they feed on fear and obedience. All is not as it seems. We are living in two worlds.
There’s the world we’re shown - the bright, propaganda-driven illusion manufactured by the government and its corporate sponsors - and the world we actually inhabit, where economic inequality widens, real agendas are buried beneath layers of Orwellian doublespeak, and “freedom” is rationed out in controlled, legalistic doses by militarized police and federal agents. We’re being fed a series of carefully contrived fictions that bear no resemblance to reality.
Tune out the distractions and diversions, and you run headlong into an unmistakable, unpalatable truth: monsters with human faces walk among us. Many of them work for the U.S. government. Through its power grabs, brutality, greed, corruption, and tyranny, the government has become almost indistinguishable from the evil it claims to fight - terrorism, torture, disease, drug trafficking, trafficking of persons, violence, theft, even scientific experimentations that treat humans as test subjects.
With every passing day, it becomes painfully evident that the American Police State has developed its own monstrous alter ego: the Vampire State. Like its legendary namesake, it survives by draining the lifeblood of the nation - the sweat, money, labor, privacy, and freedoms of “We the People.” One tax, one law, one war, one surveillance program at a time, it takes what it needs and bleeds us dry.
As in every great horror story, the most terrifying monsters are the ones that look familiar. Of all the gothic figures, Bram Stoker’s vampire - a cold, calculating predator bent on conquest -may be the closest to the waking nightmare unfolding before us.
Like its mythic counterpart, the Vampire State seduces its victims with promises of safety, comfort, and national greatness. Once trust is secured and access granted, it feeds slowly and methodically - just enough to keep the populace docile, but never enough to rouse them from their trance. Lulled by propaganda and partisan loyalty, the people become what Rod Serling, creator of "The Twilight Zone," feared most: a zombie-fied mob, mindless to the very monster that feeds on them.
Once it latches on, the Vampire State’s tyrannical hunger only grows. The Vampire State feeds on fear. Fear is the oxygen of tyranny. Every crisis - real or manufactured - fuels the quest for more power. Serling showed how quickly panic corrodes a community in The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street, where neighbors, convinced that danger lurks next door, transform into a violent mob and turn on each other. Our headlines change - drug wars and ICE raids, “domestic extremists” and pandemics, foreign hit lists and necessary military strikes - but the script remains the same: politicians play savior, and a browbeaten populace surrenders their rights for the illusion of safety.
Fear, however, is only the beginning. Once fear takes hold, the next step is to turn people against one another. Demagogues know well how to do this. The Vampire State feeds on division. In "He’s Alive", Serling’s young fanatic learns the oldest trick in the book: “The people will follow you if you give them something to hate.” The American Police State has perfected that art - pitting citizen against immigrant, left against right, protester against police, rich against poor—because a divided nation is far easier to control.
Division, in turn, breeds submission. Once a society is at war with itself, obedience becomes the only refuge. The Vampire State feeds on obedience. In Serling’s "The Obsolete Man," a religious librarian in an atheist society where books are destroyed is condemned to death for obsolescence. The real crime was individuality. Today, bureaucracies demand the same submission - teachers disciplined for dissent, journalists axed for challenging the prevailing order, citizens detained under executive orders for speech deemed “dangerous.” Resistance is drained until only compliance remains.
Obedience, however, is never enough. Tyranny requires endless sustenance - material, financial, and human. The Vampire State feeds on wealth. No predator survives without a steady source of sustenance, and the state’s preferred meal is the taxpayer. Endless wars, bloated budgets, emergency powers and corporate concessions keep the machine humming. As in Judgment Night and The Purple Testament, the war engine consumes bodies and earnings while sanctioning the cost as “patriotism.” Trillions get funneled to defense contractors and prison profiteers even as the public is told is “no money” for justice, infrastructure, welfare, or the basic maintenance of a free society.
Yet even that cannot satisfy a regime that wants total control. To control completely, it must know everything about those in its power. The Vampire State feeds on privacy. A true predator must know its prey. The predatory state now drinks deeply from the digital lifeblood of the nation - every call logged, every movement tracked, every purchase recorded. Palantir-powered surveillance, biometric checkpoints, facial recognition databases: this is Serling’s cautionary universe updated for the algorithmic age.
And when fear, division, obedience, wealth, and privacy have been mined to exhaustion, the Vampire State turns to its most precious prey - the human spirit. The Vampire State feeds on hope. The final hunger is spiritual. It drains its victims of hope until despair is all that’s left. A hopeless populace is a controlled one. Serling warned repeatedly that when people lose their moral bearings, they risk becoming the very monsters they fear.
Every horror story reaches a moment when the victims realize what they’re up against. Ours has come. The question is how to break the spell. While Rod Serling warned of what would happen if fear and conformity became our national creed, filmmaker John Carpenter showed what it looks like when that warning is ignored. Best known for "Halloween," Carpenter’s body of work is infused with a strong anti-authoritarian, anti-establishment concern. Again and again, he portrays governments at war with their own citizens, technology turned against the public, and a populace too anesthetized to resist tyranny.
In "Escape from New York" fascism is America’s future. In "The Thing" humanity dissolves into paranoia. In "Christine," technology turns murderous. In "In the Mouth of Madness," evil triumphs when people lose “the ability to know the difference between reality and fantasy.”
And in "They Live," Carpenter rips off the mask completely. Two migrant workers discover that society is controlled by parasitic aliens working in partnership with an oligarchic elite. The people - lulled by comfort, trained by propaganda, hypnotized by screens - serve as hosts for their oppressors. It is only when homeless drifter John Nada discovers a pair of doctored sunglasses - Hoffman lenses - that Nada sees what lies beneath the elite’s fabricated reality: control and bondage.
When viewed through the lens of truth, the elite, who appear human until stripped of their disguises, are shown to be monsters who have enslaved the citizenry in order to prey on them. It was fiction - but barely.
The monsters Carpenter envisioned were symbolic; ours wear suits and wave flags. Americans no longer need special Hoffman lenses to see who is draining us. They’re not aliens disguised by human masks; our overlords sit in high offices, issue executive orders, and promise to “save” us while feeding on our fears, labor, and freedoms. Unless we awaken soon, the Vampire State will finish what both Serling and Carpenter tried to warn us about. The time for allegory is over; the warning has become the world we live in.
The Vampire State’s power depends on darkness - on secrecy, silence, and the willing ignorance of those it drains. The remedy is not another political savior or bureaucratic fix. It begins where Serling’s and Carpenter’s parables always began - with the awakening of individual conscience, and the courage to name the real monsters in our midst.
Just as sunlight destroys a vampire, a populace that thinks, questions, and refuses unlawful commands is the surest defense against tyranny. We cannot fight monsters by becoming them. We cannot defeat evil by imitating its methods. If the Vampire State thrives on fear, feeds on hate, is empowered by violence, and demands obedience, then our weapon must be courage, our antidote love, our defense nonviolence, and our answer disciplined, creative civil disobedience. Every generation must relearn these truths.
Almost 250 years after America’s founders pledged their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor to unseat a tyrant, we find ourselves under the tyrant’s thumb again, saddled with a government that feeds on the fears of the public to expand its power; a bureaucracy that grows fat on the labor of the governed; a surveillance apparatus that gorges on data, privacy, and dissent; and a war machine that sustains itself on endless conflict. These are the symptoms of a nation that has forgotten its own cure.
The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights were meant to serve as stakes through the heart of authoritarian power, but they are not magic incantations. With every act of blind obedience, every surrendered liberty, every law that elevates the government over the citizenry, our protections diminish. When that happens, the story turns full circle: fiction becomes prophecy.
In Serling’s universe, there was always a narrator to warn us. In Carpenter’s, the heroes had to liberate themselves from the monsters’ trap. Our task is both: to see the truth, and to act on it.
As we make clear in "Battlefield America: The War on the American People" and its fictional counterpart "The Erik Blair Diaries", monsters walk among us—because we have failed to see them for what they truly are. The Vampire State is real. But so is the power of the human spirit to resist it."
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