Quote :
"Over the past two years, farmers across Europe have mobilized at a scale ; that should dominate headlines. Instead,
it has been treated as background noise."
Europe and America, as well as the rest of the so-called "free world" are destroying themselves, but why? To solve
imaginary problems with imaginary solutions.
What's the reaction of the controlled opposition? Raise phony issues and try to divide itself so that it can lose
the next election to the ones at the source of the trouble.
Makes me wonder who and what these people are protecting.
Al Fin: "Cowboy Commentary", aka "Eat your veggies" The Flag banner is posted in order to defy those who would make patriotic symbols illegal or disreputable.
Sunday, December 28, 2025
Europe and US losing the farm?
Cutting Through the Fog and Conflict Within Current U.S. Republican Politics
The Conservative Treehouse
Comment:
Since this Epstein stuff started, I've been eyeing the re-establishment of the Political WTF category. Indeed, what the f**k are we doing to each other? So many good things are happening, but people are unhappy? WHY?... It makes no sense, unless...
The 64K question is why. And the 64K quote here is this:
Traditional Republicans want a midterm loss.
I've got news for you people, or perhaps you already know. This has always been the case. In 1964, the liberal wing of the GOP voted for LBJ. Since that time, the rails have gotten greased towards more and more government.
Traditional Republicans aren't interested in being an opposition party. That election in 1964 proved it. Nothing has changed.
MTG is still a fake. She's trying to pre-empt any mention of her in the campaign for her replacement. This is a controlled opposition move. Run like hell against her, and the rest of the fakes. Anti-MAGA types would rather lose than to win, for if they win, they'd have to govern. They'd much rather be a controlled opposition. Screw that!
Victor Davis Hanson: The Subtle Threat of Democrats’ Sophisticated Crudity
Comment:
Found this on Free Republic...
Some of the stuff going on out there that puzzles me a bit. Is it some sort of psy-op? Why would Trump's polls be going down,
for heaven's sake?
Could it be this "crudity", but even so, how does that stack with the opposition? Still doesn't make a lick of sense to me.
Video goes in database.
Description: The comparison between Trump and his critics
Saturday, December 27, 2025
Miscalled Democrats are going to keep driving entrepreneurs out of "Collyfornia".
Where's the "Governator" when you need him? The "Governator" was all-Hollywood, and nothing real.
Peter Thiel is leaving California if we pass a 1% tax on billionaires for 5 years to pay for healthcare for the working class facing steep Medicaid cuts.
— Ro Khanna (@RoKhanna) December 27, 2025
I echo what FDR said with sarcasm of economic royalists when they threatened to leave, "I will miss them very much." https://t.co/5N8FxBqJww
Bari Weiss is an improvement, don' t let anyone tell you otherwise
Subscribe to Sharyl’s Substack https://t.co/f8ie77LRcW Comment: People like to complain about no convictions, but ask yourselves this: Would this information ever have seen the light of day if Kamala Harris was POTUS today? You know that it wouldn't. Moral? Kwicherbellyakin.
— BootsandOil (@BootsandO6892) December 27, 2025
In an ideal world, I would agree with Gen. Flynn
But we live in a REAL world. The REAL world's courts won't convict a fellow partner in crime. So what do you do about THIS? There is a limited amount of things that can be done at any one time. How does it benefit MAGA to chase down improbable convictions, when there is a MOUNTAIN of stuff that must be done RIGHT NOW?
It's a matter of priorities. Convictions in these cases is most unlikely. You may get a few, if you are very, very lucky. This won't justify the time and expense in going after these people.
There is a real danger that MAGA will end as soon as Trump leaves office. Considering what will likely take its place in that event, it should behoove you to make sure as humanly possible that that event DOES NOT TAKE PLACE.
That meeting did happen and I asked many more questions and learned many more things. To date, this WH has yet to reach out because there are people who want the 2020 election to go away. Take a guess at some of the names.
— General Mike Flynn (@GenFlynn) December 27, 2025
The rigged won’t go away, yes, it was rigged and we were…
If the concern was about the welfare of children...
Then please note that this is being done NOW. You can play around with the Epstein Files until the cows come home, and there wouldn't be a doggone thing to show for it. Just sayin'.
🚨 BREAKING: @SecKennedy announces "six decisive actions" to protect children from chemical and surgical mutilation:
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) December 18, 2025
"So-called 'gender affirming care' has inflicted lasting physical and psychological damage on vulnerable young people... we’re done with junk science, driven by… pic.twitter.com/q4iWbmSNEj
Election 2020 scandals confirmed
I'm all for getting some justice here. The question is how do you get that justice? If you go to the courts, the corrupt jurisdiction will NOT convict any of their fellow partners in crime. It is almost masochistic to even attempt such a thing. The only benefit that MIGHT be obtained would be to show their obvious corruption.
What can be done here that isn't being done ?
Fulton County admits the wrongdoing now, five years too late for it to matter. But if you bring it up when it matters, they indict you and threaten life in prison to shut you up. https://t.co/FwJvMYpkF7
— David Shafer (@DavidShafer) December 18, 2025
Bronowski's Warning
12/27/25:
Here's another gem. It will go into the database. Author: Reginald Beardacus
From Description: "Bronowski laments; humanity will continue to progress, but not necessarily with the West at its forefront."
Quick Update: This gem will lead to other gems, such as this. Well, there are 17k posts on this blog, over a period of 15 years. There's some good stuff here.
5/29/12:
The warning is about the retreat from knowledge. He says Western Civilization is giving up. But this series was first aired over 40 years ago- just before his death. How has that played out in the intervening time since his death?
Knowledge seems to continue in certain areas and decline in others. One example of advancement is the internet and computers.
But the decline is seen elsewhere in space exploration and nuclear energy. There are those who may argue if this is really a decline. It may not be, if aneutronic fusion is perfected. But that is a gamble. If that gamble doesn't pay off, the West will have put all of its eggs in a barren basket. If fusion cannot be perfected, what about fission energy? It looks like this has definitely fallen out of favor, but what if that judgment has been premature? If so, this is a retreat, which is not based upon scientific evidence. It will have been a self inflicted injury.
The other sign of decline is in the slow advancement, if not outright abandonment of the exploration of space. This too could be a premature judgment. For the value of space exploration could be in finding those things that are claimed to be in short supply on Earth- unlimited resources. It will have been a self imposed limitation, which is supposedly based upon the notion of limits to growth. But what if that is incorrect? What if the limits are only those that we impose upon ourselves? What if you could settle space, which according to some claims, could hold orders of magnitude more people, with a civilization comparable to what exists now in only advanced nations of the world?
So the decline of the West may occur because of premature judgments. The judgments in turn, are not necessarily based upon knowledge, but a belief in something that is not knowledge. It could be a belief that science is the cause of trouble, not a solution for the troubles of humanity. Is science the problem or the solution? The answer to that depends upon a vision for humanity. If humanity is to be remain locked upon this Earth, then limitations will be imposed that will avoid the solutions that science can provide. The decline will continue. As Bronowski says, the advance of man will continue, but by others instead. As for myself, I'm not so sure. If the West doesn't do it, it may never be done at all.
Here's another gem. It will go into the database. Author: Reginald Beardacus
From Description: "Bronowski laments; humanity will continue to progress, but not necessarily with the West at its forefront."
Quick Update: This gem will lead to other gems, such as this. Well, there are 17k posts on this blog, over a period of 15 years. There's some good stuff here.
5/29/12:
A Clip from the Ascent of Man, Episode 13.
The warning is about the retreat from knowledge. He says Western Civilization is giving up. But this series was first aired over 40 years ago- just before his death. How has that played out in the intervening time since his death?
Knowledge seems to continue in certain areas and decline in others. One example of advancement is the internet and computers.
But the decline is seen elsewhere in space exploration and nuclear energy. There are those who may argue if this is really a decline. It may not be, if aneutronic fusion is perfected. But that is a gamble. If that gamble doesn't pay off, the West will have put all of its eggs in a barren basket. If fusion cannot be perfected, what about fission energy? It looks like this has definitely fallen out of favor, but what if that judgment has been premature? If so, this is a retreat, which is not based upon scientific evidence. It will have been a self inflicted injury.
The other sign of decline is in the slow advancement, if not outright abandonment of the exploration of space. This too could be a premature judgment. For the value of space exploration could be in finding those things that are claimed to be in short supply on Earth- unlimited resources. It will have been a self imposed limitation, which is supposedly based upon the notion of limits to growth. But what if that is incorrect? What if the limits are only those that we impose upon ourselves? What if you could settle space, which according to some claims, could hold orders of magnitude more people, with a civilization comparable to what exists now in only advanced nations of the world?
So the decline of the West may occur because of premature judgments. The judgments in turn, are not necessarily based upon knowledge, but a belief in something that is not knowledge. It could be a belief that science is the cause of trouble, not a solution for the troubles of humanity. Is science the problem or the solution? The answer to that depends upon a vision for humanity. If humanity is to be remain locked upon this Earth, then limitations will be imposed that will avoid the solutions that science can provide. The decline will continue. As Bronowski says, the advance of man will continue, but by others instead. As for myself, I'm not so sure. If the West doesn't do it, it may never be done at all.
Friday, December 26, 2025
Glen Campbell - Wichita Lineman
12/26/25:
One more, and then I'll ease off of this. This video was taken down, and I substituted a Rick Beato video for it.
Title: Why THIS Is The Greatest Country Song
Author: Rick Beato
2/20/25:
Going to edit this because the video isn't there anymore, so I'll replace it with Rick Beato's analysis of it. He has a very high opinion of the song.
See the video below as the replacement for the originally embedded video.
Originally posted 6.8.17, updated
8.8.17:
Glen Campbell has passed away. He was 81. In these videos, he looks so young. Life is short, don't you know.
the original post follows:
A hit song from the sixties. That was supposed to be the swinging sixties. Hmm. Pretty innocent time, if you ax me.
Yes, I like the song.
One more, and then I'll ease off of this. This video was taken down, and I substituted a Rick Beato video for it.
Title: Why THIS Is The Greatest Country Song
Author: Rick Beato
2/20/25:
Going to edit this because the video isn't there anymore, so I'll replace it with Rick Beato's analysis of it. He has a very high opinion of the song.
See the video below as the replacement for the originally embedded video.
Originally posted 6.8.17, updated
8.8.17:
Glen Campbell has passed away. He was 81. In these videos, he looks so young. Life is short, don't you know.
the original post follows:
A hit song from the sixties. That was supposed to be the swinging sixties. Hmm. Pretty innocent time, if you ax me.
Yes, I like the song.
Review of the Movie "The Arroyo"
12/26/25:
Here's another video to add to the database. The video embed itself is at the bottom of the post.
Author: Bill Whittle
Description: It's about The Arroyo Trailer video
8/17/25:
I don't think I've ever posted anything about the "obvious" connection between "The Arroyo" and "No Country for Old Men".
Next thing that is "obvious", is the question of why would they pattern it upon another movie? Perhaps Declaration Entertainment missed the boat. The reason for the movie being made was a sort of protest against the kind of movies being made in Hollywood.
Of course, it has all gotten worse. Hollywood is worse than ever.
Declaration Entertainment was going to do another movie that might have been a knock against Star Wars and Star Trek.
If Declaration Entertainment missed the boat, what might they have done differently? Maybe having a sense of humor. They took themselves a bit too seriously. Like we all do. That's our problem.
Note: I used scare quotes around the word obvious. If it was so obvious, then why didn't I notice this sooner? No answer except that it seems dumb in retrospect.
Update, 9/23/23:
Just spent a bit of time perusing some reviews of the "documentary" about Cleopatra. I won't link to it. Just mentioning it here in the context of what Bill Whittle tried to accomplish a decade ago. It is also worth mentioning there was a movie that re-did Barbie. Yep, it was not well-received.
So there it is again. Just a whole lot of belly-aching, but doing absolutely NOTHING about it.
I tried. I contributed to the movie "Arroyo". Modestly contributed to it. If people would just get off their asses and DO something, good things MIGHT happen. But noooooooo. You've got all the belly-aching and nothing done about it. Indeed! We've got "conservatives" who would prefer to fight US than to fight Democrats!
the original post of 10/5/22 is directly below:
Hollywood Stasi, an old story
It appears that those Americans who oppose the powers-that-be cannot sustain a movement long enough for it to reach fruition. That is a fault that should be remembered first BEFORE you start bellyaching about the political left. We've been down this road many times before, yet the results seem to be the same. It is the continual drift to socialism, societal decay, and failure. The fault dear Brutus, may lie within us.
Nothing will change until there is a sustained movement that cannot be denied. This is what Paul Krugman and his ilk are so afraid of. Krugman called it "movement conservatism". There's a clue about the left that Krugman may not have wanted to be emphasized. He called it "movement" conservatism. The only kind of conservatism that the left likes is the kind that doesn't move. In other words, it is dead, or might as well be.
Hollywood can make movies that cast conservatives as villains, but why can't "conservatives" do anything about that? Oh, but there's a lot of bellyaching. You're not going to change the left, but you can certainly beat them at their own game---provided that there's still the opportunity to do so.
Declaration Entertainment attempted to do that. But the "conservatives" failed to rally behind it. Perhaps because there wasn't the perceived need. Has that changed? So you get this post on Instapundit, which is a link to somebody who wrote a post about the "Hollywood Stasi". It just seems to be in the mold of talking but not doing anything about it.
What to do? Conservatives need to get the "fire in the belly". Also, to see alternatives being brought to the market, while we still have one. As Dan Bongino says all the time, we need an alternative economy. We have to be able to impose real financial pain on the left, or there won't be alternatives to the left anymore. One way is to compete with Hollywood. Hollywood is anti-conservative. Companies like Declaration Entertainment could have provided that alternative in that economic space of making movies.
There's more to it. It is a comprehensive plan and movement that is needed. That's what the left seems to have had so much success with. They've had that success because nobody has had that fire in the belly to see it to completion.
All talk and no action is no longer permissible. Time to get moving.
Update coming:
Originally posted Mar 8, 2014
This will be a short review. First of all, a background. The movie was a Bill Whittle project. It was made by an outfit called Declaration Entertainment, which I helped fund as a "citizen-producer". As a consequence of my support, they now just got around to sending me a copy. It is also true that I dropped out after a short term, so I didn't fund it all the way to its completion. Okay, so the criticism can go both ways.
I went in thinking that this may have been a "jerk-off" fantasy, as so many things are in our society these days. To my surprise, it didn't not confirm that. However, there was an element of unreality to it that I must call out.
The good guy is injured in a manner that probably made him incapable of doing what he did in the climax. That's the unreality. But the unreality was necessary for the film to reach its climax.
It is true that, in the movies, the "good guy" wins. Even today, in Hollywood movies that Whittle objects to, the "good guy" wins. But, what is "good" and what is "bad"? That's the rub. It all depends upon where you're standing as to the identity of that personage.
In this movie, the good guy wins. After all, he's just defending what's his. Even in Hollywood, the guy here can be a hero. Nothing out of the usual here.
I think what Whittle wants to do is to motivate people into not being sheep, and start acting like free men. I applaud that. The main character is a man in that mold. Someone we used to look up to. Today's Hollywood would make this guy into a villain because he's just too macho for today's tastes. There's the difference, perhaps.
Today's men are driven into passivity. Today's men are told that it's okay for them to literally be like girls. So, it shouldn't be a surprise that that is the way some of them behave.
Yet, in this movie, the women are bad ass too. It doesn't necessarily follow the old sex type mold.
It's an okay movie. But it may shift a bit into the unreal mode in order to keep the hero heroic. That's a small fault to find. Otherwise, a movie can't be a movie without some artistic license. People have to have their fairy tales.
Here's another video to add to the database. The video embed itself is at the bottom of the post.
Author: Bill Whittle
Description: It's about The Arroyo Trailer video
8/17/25:
I don't think I've ever posted anything about the "obvious" connection between "The Arroyo" and "No Country for Old Men".
Next thing that is "obvious", is the question of why would they pattern it upon another movie? Perhaps Declaration Entertainment missed the boat. The reason for the movie being made was a sort of protest against the kind of movies being made in Hollywood.
Of course, it has all gotten worse. Hollywood is worse than ever.
Declaration Entertainment was going to do another movie that might have been a knock against Star Wars and Star Trek.
If Declaration Entertainment missed the boat, what might they have done differently? Maybe having a sense of humor. They took themselves a bit too seriously. Like we all do. That's our problem.
Note: I used scare quotes around the word obvious. If it was so obvious, then why didn't I notice this sooner? No answer except that it seems dumb in retrospect.
Update, 9/23/23:
Just spent a bit of time perusing some reviews of the "documentary" about Cleopatra. I won't link to it. Just mentioning it here in the context of what Bill Whittle tried to accomplish a decade ago. It is also worth mentioning there was a movie that re-did Barbie. Yep, it was not well-received.
So there it is again. Just a whole lot of belly-aching, but doing absolutely NOTHING about it.
I tried. I contributed to the movie "Arroyo". Modestly contributed to it. If people would just get off their asses and DO something, good things MIGHT happen. But noooooooo. You've got all the belly-aching and nothing done about it. Indeed! We've got "conservatives" who would prefer to fight US than to fight Democrats!
the original post of 10/5/22 is directly below:
Hollywood Stasi, an old story
It appears that those Americans who oppose the powers-that-be cannot sustain a movement long enough for it to reach fruition. That is a fault that should be remembered first BEFORE you start bellyaching about the political left. We've been down this road many times before, yet the results seem to be the same. It is the continual drift to socialism, societal decay, and failure. The fault dear Brutus, may lie within us.
Nothing will change until there is a sustained movement that cannot be denied. This is what Paul Krugman and his ilk are so afraid of. Krugman called it "movement conservatism". There's a clue about the left that Krugman may not have wanted to be emphasized. He called it "movement" conservatism. The only kind of conservatism that the left likes is the kind that doesn't move. In other words, it is dead, or might as well be.
Hollywood can make movies that cast conservatives as villains, but why can't "conservatives" do anything about that? Oh, but there's a lot of bellyaching. You're not going to change the left, but you can certainly beat them at their own game---provided that there's still the opportunity to do so.
Declaration Entertainment attempted to do that. But the "conservatives" failed to rally behind it. Perhaps because there wasn't the perceived need. Has that changed? So you get this post on Instapundit, which is a link to somebody who wrote a post about the "Hollywood Stasi". It just seems to be in the mold of talking but not doing anything about it.
What to do? Conservatives need to get the "fire in the belly". Also, to see alternatives being brought to the market, while we still have one. As Dan Bongino says all the time, we need an alternative economy. We have to be able to impose real financial pain on the left, or there won't be alternatives to the left anymore. One way is to compete with Hollywood. Hollywood is anti-conservative. Companies like Declaration Entertainment could have provided that alternative in that economic space of making movies.
There's more to it. It is a comprehensive plan and movement that is needed. That's what the left seems to have had so much success with. They've had that success because nobody has had that fire in the belly to see it to completion.
All talk and no action is no longer permissible. Time to get moving.
Update coming:
Originally posted Mar 8, 2014
This will be a short review. First of all, a background. The movie was a Bill Whittle project. It was made by an outfit called Declaration Entertainment, which I helped fund as a "citizen-producer". As a consequence of my support, they now just got around to sending me a copy. It is also true that I dropped out after a short term, so I didn't fund it all the way to its completion. Okay, so the criticism can go both ways.
I went in thinking that this may have been a "jerk-off" fantasy, as so many things are in our society these days. To my surprise, it didn't not confirm that. However, there was an element of unreality to it that I must call out.
The good guy is injured in a manner that probably made him incapable of doing what he did in the climax. That's the unreality. But the unreality was necessary for the film to reach its climax.
It is true that, in the movies, the "good guy" wins. Even today, in Hollywood movies that Whittle objects to, the "good guy" wins. But, what is "good" and what is "bad"? That's the rub. It all depends upon where you're standing as to the identity of that personage.
In this movie, the good guy wins. After all, he's just defending what's his. Even in Hollywood, the guy here can be a hero. Nothing out of the usual here.
I think what Whittle wants to do is to motivate people into not being sheep, and start acting like free men. I applaud that. The main character is a man in that mold. Someone we used to look up to. Today's Hollywood would make this guy into a villain because he's just too macho for today's tastes. There's the difference, perhaps.
Today's men are driven into passivity. Today's men are told that it's okay for them to literally be like girls. So, it shouldn't be a surprise that that is the way some of them behave.
Yet, in this movie, the women are bad ass too. It doesn't necessarily follow the old sex type mold.
It's an okay movie. But it may shift a bit into the unreal mode in order to keep the hero heroic. That's a small fault to find. Otherwise, a movie can't be a movie without some artistic license. People have to have their fairy tales.
The Stupidity of Our Federal Government
12/26/25:
I'll add this and possibly other of the most visited embedded videos.
Title: Jim Kennedy - Link Between Thorium and Self Reliance in Rare Earths & Energy @ TEAC4
Author: gordonmcdowell
10/16/25:
It bears repeating, even at the risk of being tiresome. The speaker here is distinguishing between two different types of ores. There's an ore with Thorium in it, which also holds all of the Rare Earths we're looking for, and another without Thorium. This other kind is preferred for some strange reason, and consequently, we do not obtain the Rare Earths. It isn't from the lack of Monazite ore, in which the Thorium resides, it is because the regulators are prohibiting it due to the TINY amount of radiation that Thorium emits.
Pretty silly, eh? It isn't any more dangerous than all kinds of other things we already do, but it is prohibited as if it were some of the most dangerous substances out there.
A banana has more radioactivity in it than a equal mass of Thorium. It's dumb policy. The talk above is over 10 years old. Evidently, the policy still exists. But we can buy it from Ukraine! What nonsense.
3/2/25:
With all the talk about rare earths these days, it seemed well to remind everyone that there is no shortage of rare earths in America. Instead, the shortage is in the brain power. Wherever you find Thorium, you find rare earths. There's a lot of thorium deposits in America. So all the talk is wrong anyway. Quick update: It should be mentioned that any offer to purchase any such thing from Ukraine is a total gift. One has to wonder why the offer was even made at all. There are two optional explanations: 1) stupidity, or 2) treason. Either one is not good.
5/28/13:
On vivid display in the Jim Kennedy talk at TEAC4 last year. By the way, I'm going through each of these in sequence and this is the fifth of the series. Anyway, he closes with this one, enough to get this old man's blood pressure up through the roof. It should get yours up too if you care anything at all about our future.
I'll add this and possibly other of the most visited embedded videos.
Title: Jim Kennedy - Link Between Thorium and Self Reliance in Rare Earths & Energy @ TEAC4
Author: gordonmcdowell
10/16/25:
With my skin-suit theory, I'll posit a new corollary to it as follows: If it is potentially a very good thing for the USA to have, the leftists will try to destroy it. The point being that America already has it too good, and doesn't need any more good things because the rest of the world doesn't have enough of these good things.
The U.S. has more rare earth minerals than any nation on Earth—an estimated $12 trillion worth.
— Stephen Moore (@StephenMoore) October 15, 2025
But thanks to endless permits, lawsuits, and land bans, we depend on China and Russia for critical materials.
We don’t have a mineral shortage—we have a leadership shortage. pic.twitter.com/MX61aQrlx3
P.S. Maybe it isn't the "stupidity", but something else. Let's say "malice" instead. That is, the malice of the political left. Could Trump reverse this? Perhaps. But Trump had better deal with the deeper issues, which is this malice of the left. It has no end to it. Something like this, but actually not based upon anything real, but mostly phony grievances conjured up out of thin air.
Trump DOES get it, as shown in video below; but why can he not just deal with them in the way the need to be dealt with?
3/3/25:🚨 BREAKING: President Trump UNLEASHES on the fake news and Democrats for accusing him of "weaponizing" the justice system
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) October 15, 2025
"DON'T tell me about us going after them. If anything, we've been very, VERY SOFT. I wouldn't be that soft, I'll tell you that!"
"They want to put my SON… pic.twitter.com/cHYBOke8kQ
It bears repeating, even at the risk of being tiresome. The speaker here is distinguishing between two different types of ores. There's an ore with Thorium in it, which also holds all of the Rare Earths we're looking for, and another without Thorium. This other kind is preferred for some strange reason, and consequently, we do not obtain the Rare Earths. It isn't from the lack of Monazite ore, in which the Thorium resides, it is because the regulators are prohibiting it due to the TINY amount of radiation that Thorium emits.
Pretty silly, eh? It isn't any more dangerous than all kinds of other things we already do, but it is prohibited as if it were some of the most dangerous substances out there.
A banana has more radioactivity in it than a equal mass of Thorium. It's dumb policy. The talk above is over 10 years old. Evidently, the policy still exists. But we can buy it from Ukraine! What nonsense.
3/2/25:
With all the talk about rare earths these days, it seemed well to remind everyone that there is no shortage of rare earths in America. Instead, the shortage is in the brain power. Wherever you find Thorium, you find rare earths. There's a lot of thorium deposits in America. So all the talk is wrong anyway. Quick update: It should be mentioned that any offer to purchase any such thing from Ukraine is a total gift. One has to wonder why the offer was even made at all. There are two optional explanations: 1) stupidity, or 2) treason. Either one is not good.
5/28/13:
On vivid display in the Jim Kennedy talk at TEAC4 last year. By the way, I'm going through each of these in sequence and this is the fifth of the series. Anyway, he closes with this one, enough to get this old man's blood pressure up through the roof. It should get yours up too if you care anything at all about our future.
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| link to financial times.com article |
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| link to Washington Times article |
Thursday, December 25, 2025
The Ugly Truth About Avocados (You Won’t Like It)
Author: Dr. Eric Berg DC
Description: Why you should be very careful about avocados and avocado products. They are not what they are being presented as.
Question: Is it my imagination, or does there appear to be a lot of stuff like this out there?
Of course, the best solution is to grow your own stuff, but there is a lot of resistance to this from the regulators. Of course there is! If everybody took care of things themselves, there wouldn't be any need for regulators. Sort of like police who don't take care of public safety. It really isn't the fault of individual police officers (or is it?) You do whatever the boss who writes your paycheck tells you to do ( or not do).
The problem isn't that there isn't enough government. The problem is that government doesn't do what they say that they will do. It is the same problem as with the merchants who sell you phony stuff. DISHONESTY.
What can tragedy tell us?
A terrible story here; one that may illustrate a few truths about human nature. Actually, it is but one of many stories within a larger tragedy that was the aftermath of the Great Galveston Storm of 1900.
Before beginning, there's a feeling among some people that goes something like this: Why mention such a terrible story? Why spend your time reading it, and writing about it? This isn't speculation, because a question like that was put to me before. So that thought is appropriate to mention here. The answer to the question is that the story is about truth... If you want to wear rose-colored glasses, and pretend that everything in the world is peachy-keen, you will run the risk of being unprepared when disaster does indeed strike. And it will. You can count on that.
Others may read it and say those people were to blame for their own fate. But that happened in 1900. They didn't have the warning systems that we have today... You really cannot blame them entirely; but there was a history of storms wiping out coastal cities along the Gulf Coast, prior to this one. More than one town got obliterated when one of those storms hit. The risk of living there had to be well-known before this tragedy occurred.
Yeah, but what do I get out of that story? Just a snippet of it will reveal the point which I am trying to get across. For even in the midst of horror, it is necessary for some folks to step up to the plate, and do what needs to be done. Here's a paraphrasing of the snippet. I won't quote directly from the Texas History book. The story is that something had to be done about the enormous number of dead bodies. The bodies were decomposing rapidly, and the corpses had to be dealt with. There simply was no time to waste. There was difficulty getting men to volunteer for the task of placing the corpses on a barge and sinking it in the midst of the Gulf, far away from shore. The city was under martial law, and a company of men with bayonets had to be summoned to compel a group of men to perform this awful task. For if it was not done, a grave risk of disease could have wiped out the rest of the survivors. Corpses were bloated, and some were already bursting.
But what is the point? The point is that those people could not be reasoned with. Even when it was reasonable to see that it was a necessary task that had to be done IMMEDIATELY, NOBODY WAS WILLING TO DO IT. Force had to be applied. So you can wear your rose-colored glasses all you want. You can deny that people would as a rule, refuse to do what is necessary. But then, you find a story like this.
If you still don't get the point, then I don't know what else I can tell you. Complaining about how awful everything is won't make things better. You have to step up and DO SOMETHING. Hopefully, it is the right thing. For if force is going to be applied, it could easily be for the wrong reasons. In that situation as well, it is necessary to do something. Whatever that action may be, you may have to pay the price for it, and that may be your freedom or your very life.
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