What a sad story ...at least a better ending than many we hear about
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A 13-year-old girl who went missing from her home in Texas this month was found alive by police in Long Beach, California. A good Samaritan had seen her inside a vehicle with a sign that read, “Help me,” and subsequently called authorities, leading to her rescue.
According to court documents, the teen had run away from home, and on July 6 was walking down a street in San Antonio when a grey Nissan car pulled up beside her. The driver, a man in his 60s, then allegedly drew a gun and told her, “If you don’t get in the car with me, I am going to hurt you.”
Fearing for her life, the girl got in the passenger’s seat of the car and when he asked her age, she replied she was 13. At one point he allegedly said he was 26 and then later 43. She mentioned she had a friend in Australia, and he said he would take her on a cruise ship to visit them but that she had to do something for him first.
[url=https://img.theepochtimes.com/assets/uploads/2023/07/24/id5419664-3456576-stranger-567-456-car-43565467-1200x922.jpg][/url] The hand-written sign (above) and BB gun (below) allegedly found in the 61-year-old suspect’s car. (Courtesy of Department of Justice)

The man then allegedly sexually assaulted her repeatedly in the back of the car. He would again sexually assault her at least two more times over the next two days as they drove from Texas to California.
On July 9, they parked at a laundromat in Long Beach, Los Angeles County, where the suspect went inside to wash their clothes. At that point, the girl held up a sign that she had written which read, “Help me.” A passerby who saw the sign phoned police who, upon arrival, allegedly saw the suspect standing outside the car, and saw the girl mouth the word “help.”
The suspect, 61-year-old Steven Robert Sablan, was arrested, and now faces kidnapping charges with a maximum possible sentence of life in a federal prison. Police searched the car and found a black BB gun,  a brown and black switch blade knife, a hand-written help me sign, and a pair of handcuffs.
Mr. Sablan had two prior convictions for robbery with a deadly weapon from 1985 and 1979, respectively.
The good Samaritan who phoned in to help the young victim was not identified in court documents.
“I want to commend our community members for their vigilance and willingness to get involved by calling 9-1-1. This incident highlights the critical role community members play in keeping people safe,” said Chief of Police Wally Hebeish in a press release. “I would also like to acknowledge our officers for their swift response and actions which led to getting this victim to safety.”

Some may remember this accident where 67 civilians and 3 pilots died. over 500 people were injured and the rescue of the injured was really messed up.

News and Views from the Nefarium

Quote:BRAZIL’S CENTRAL BANK DIGITAL CURRENCY CODE HAS SOME INTRIGUING...

July 17, 2023 / Joseph P. Farrell

But beyond the entertainment there were some stories of far meatier content and consequence this week, and one of them we need to address right up front, because it's a kind of "we told you so" moment.

Brazil’s CBDC pilot code reveals ability to freeze and reduce funds

Ever since the emergence of so-called digital "Crypto-'currencies'", I along with many others including our friend and colleague Catherine Austin Fitts have been warning that crypto-currencies, especially if they become the basis of central bank digital currencies, are (1) not secure, since no cyber system ever really is, and (2) not currencies at all, but corporate coupons (at best), whose value can be manipulated at will by the programmer, and (3) not only whose value can be manipulated, but can be completely turned off or on, or made subject to a "time limit" (spend it or lose it), thus making it impossible to accumulate wealth for yourself or your children and grandchildren. They are, to be blunt but completely honest about it, merely a means of social control and engineering. As far as the so-called security of cyrpto-currencies goes, I need only remind the reader of the initial claims for blockchains and distributed ledgers. At last (!) we were assured, there is something entirely safe and entirely out of the hands of the central banksters.

...until the stories of hacked cryptos finally emerged.

Well, Brazil's central bank has revealed the code for its proposed central bank digital currency, and guess what?

Quote:Blockchain developer Pedro Magalhães claims that he has successfully reverse-engineered the source code of Brazil’s pilot central bank digital currency (CBDC). He revealed the existence of functions that empower a central authority to freeze funds or reduce balances.

While concerns over such capabilities have been raised, the developer argues that there could be certain situations where these functions might prove beneficial.

On July 6, the Banco Central do Brazil published the source code of the digital Brazilian real pilot project on the GitHub portal, emphasizing that it was solely intended for testing purposes and subject to potential modifications.

Pedro Magalhães, a noted blockchain developer and founder of tech consulting firm Iora Labs, announced later that he had successfully “reverse-engineered” the open-source code, exposing various functions. These included freezing and unfreezing accounts, adjusting balances, transferring currency between addresses, and generating or eliminating digital real from specific addresses.

Magalhães pointed out that the code lacked explicit specifications regarding the circumstances under which the tokens could be frozen and, more crucially, who possesses the authority to execute such actions.

The blockchain dev expressed concerns about an institution unilaterally freezing a user’s balance, highlighting the stark contrast between executing decentralized finance operations and granting an institution the power to freeze funds.

So there it is folks, our warnings are no longer mere speculation or hypothesis, they are a beta-test reality.
And they're a sure  and certain one-way ticket to a serfdom and slavery far more total and all-encompassing than anything yet seen in human history, one with all the ham-fisted grace and compassion of the tax man and the high-pitched precision of a dentist's drill, for you'll note that the capabilities as listed could be narrowly tailored to an individual, or broadened to incorporate whole (uncooperative) regions and their populations.  And neither Ms. Fitts nor I are the only ones trying to sound a warning:



Leo Hohmann


In this context it is worth mentioning that Brazil is, of course, a "BRICS" nation, one of the original "big four" of the loose cooperative economic alliance of Brazil, Russia, India, and China, and now, South Africa and many others. Most of the Big BRICS Four have already concluded various bilateral currency agreements allowing them to buy each other's commodities and clear their transactions in each other's currencies, bypassing the dollar completely.

Bear this little bit of news in mind, when you read this Wednesday's blog about the upcoming BRICS summit in August...

In the meantime, I repeat my oft-repeated warnings: any genuine currency is always, first, foremost, and finally, a physical medium of exchange, even blips on a bank's computer ledger are, because they are subject to that all important rule of convertibility: the blips can be traded for a piece of paper which in turn can be used to conduct transactions. Even better if that piece of paper can be converted into a tangible amount of silver or gold, and if that silver or gold can be used to conduct transactions. Any functional monetary system has, as one of its salient features, redundancy and convertability between different forms of money.  A cashless system of digital "currency" is none of these things. It's a title deed to you...

Quote:THE AUGUST BRICS SUMMIT: A GOLD-BACKED CURRENCY? OR JUST A FANCY

July 19, 2023 / Joseph P. Farrell

Just this last Monday, you'll recall, I blogged about Brazil's Central Bank's Digital Currency code, which apparently had a few key "features", features that I and others have been trying to warn about for some time(see Monday's blog, "Brazil's Central Bank Digital Currency Code has some Intriguing "Features").

But that code is being rolled out in the context of the upcoming BRICS summit just next month, for which Russia made an announcement which, if you were watching only the American or the West's propatainment "media", you'd learn absolutely nothing, because they simply somehow "forgot" to mention it. It's an announcement with huge financial and geopolitical significance (our thanks to E.G. for spotting and sharing this version of that story):

The bell tolls for fiat

Note these important statements from the beginning of the article:

Quote:The importance of Russia’s announcement that a new gold-backed trade currency is on the BRICS meeting agenda for August 22—24 in Johannesburg seems to have gone completely over everyone’s heads, with mainstream media not even reporting it. 

This is a mistake. China and Russia know that if they are to succeed in removing the dollar from their sphere of influence, they have to come up with a better alternative. They also know they have to consolidate their trade partners into a formidable bloc, so plans are afoot to consolidate BRICS, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, and the Eurasian Economic Union along with those nations who wish to join in. It will be a super-group embracing most of Asia (including the Middle East), Africa, and Latin America.

The groundwork for the new currency has been laid by Sergei Glazyev and is considerably more advanced than generally realised.

This article explains why Russia and China are now prepared to fully back Glazyev’s expanded project. For Russia, it is also now imperative to destabilise the dollar as a deliberate escalation of the financial war against America and NATO. China’s priority is no longer to protect her export trade, but to ensure that her African and Latin American suppliers are not destabilised by higher dollar interest rates.

Additionally, the article contains a very helpful detailed historical review of how we came to this point. For our purposes here, I want to focus on these statements:

Quote:Since the western alliance’s sanctions, the signals coming out of Moscow have been clear: Sergei Glazyev, who is Putin’s point-man for macroeconomic policy has been waving the gold flag since then in plain sight. As a board member of the Eurasian Economic Union Commission (EAEU) since 2019, he was tasked by Putin to design a trade settlement currency for the EAEU. The initial statement through a news agency in Bishkek in early March 2022 reported that it was to be based on the currencies of the member states and a basket of undefined commodities. According to Glazyev, his brief was to create a Eurasian monetary and financial system to the exclusion of foreign currencies, particularly the dollar and euro.
 
The intention was also to remove exchange controls for cross- border settlements within the Eurasian membership, replacing the dollar as the commonly used settlement medium between them. A week later, in an article for Goldmoney[ii] I concluded that as stated the new currency would not work, and the only logical solution was to do away with the currency basket proposal and use gold backing solely to represent commodities. That way, it would be easy for other nations in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) to join in, which was the ultimate objective from the outset.

In July 2022, Glazyev was behind a move to beef up the Moscow gold exchange, the official line being that having been sanctioned from the London market Russian miners needed a more effective local market. But working in conjunction with the Shanghai Gold Exchange this was an important signal about the way Galzyev’s monetary thinking was developing. Confirmation came on 27 December last year, when he wrote an article for Vedomosti, a Moscow business paper, describing why the rouble needed to return to a gold standard. That article was co-written by his deputy on the EAEU committee designing the new trade currency and was a thinly veiled indication of the committee’s view. 

Therefore, you did not have to be particularly astute to discern the trail of clues presented to us. We could assume with justification that gold was intended to be the sheet-anchor for this new currency probably from the outset, but some political hoops had to be jumped through to convince the EAEU member states that it was the solution. 

The impracticality of basing a new trade currency on anything else other than gold had been established. It now turns out that this project is almost certainly a Trojan horse for something far larger. It was obvious that other members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation should be able to join in, and now it turns out that the invitation is being extended to members of the BRICS club as well. But that’s not all. The entire membership of the SCO, its dialog partners, and associate members will be attending the BRICS conference in Johannesburg on 22—24 August. I am assuming that the original list of 36 nations, which according to most recent reports has expanded to 41, includes the members of the EAEU who were not on the original list — at the time of writing this is yet to be confirmed.

That being the case, the BRICS currency project is not a cold start and not something to be planned for a distant future. The groundwork has already been prepared by Glazyev and the structure can be rapidly assembled once the necessary resolution is adopted. It is even possible that the necessary institution(s) exist waiting to be deployed.  (Emphasis added)

You can bet your bottom dollar (if anyone will accept it) that the institutional infrastructure has already been planned out, for the very simple reason that neither Mr. Putin nor Mr. Glazyev are anyone's fools. The United States weaponized the dollar and the entire western financial system, and Russia and the rest of the BRICS nations have replied by creating an entirely new financial structure.

So how does all of this fit in with Monday's story about Brazil's central bank digital currency?

Very simply, it means that the BRICS nations are at a crossroads, and how they choose and what safeguards they build into that gold-backed system will determine whether or not their proposed currency is a real alternative to the weaponized dollar, or merely another version of financial servitude. If they erect a system where there is a real physical medium of exchange that consists of bearer-on-demand certificates of deposit  that are genuinely convertible by anyone, nation-state or individual, into real physical gold upon demand, and if gold itself can be used directly to make purchases and clear transactions, then the system will be robust and, over some time will with either gradual or sudden swiftness replace the dollar.  But if it is just another scheme to get everyone on board with a "digital 'currency'" that purports to be gold-backed without such convertibility and physical medium of exchange, it's just another Potemkin village with the yellow luster of gold as the lure. The latter may indeed be the ultimate goal, but even in that case, there will have to be a transition period where such convertibility is used to generate the trust in the final, cashless - and ultimately goldless - system. Indeed, a "gold-backed" central bank digital "currency" is just another way for central banks to put their fingers on the assaying scales.  In short, my warning here is exactly the same as my warning about those American states that are also talking about the idea of "gold-backed" crypto-"currencies":  without a real bearer-on-demand physical medium of exchange, and without real convertibility or the ability to use physical bullion in transactions, it's all talk. Fancy talk, to be sure, but still just talk.

We'll see what Mssrs. Glazyev, Lavrov, and Putin have in mind.  I for one think it would be hazardous in the extreme to underestimate him. If I can see the problems with gold-backed crypto, he can too, and he may have some surprises in store to be revealed at that summit.  At this juncture, my caveats notwithstanding, it would be foolhardy hubris and incompetence on the order of a Bai Den Dzho to bet against him.

Quote:THE BRICS’ NATIONS’ STRANGE BEIJING DECLARATION FROM LAST

July 24, 2023 / Joseph P. Farrell

So today's high octane speculation is really not my own.

With that, here's the article:

XIV BRICS Summit Beijing Declaration [Chinese gov link in English]

The declaration for the most part is, as one can tell from reading it, the usual and most-self-congratulatory boilerplate that such declarations coming out of international conferences tend to be. There are, however, a couple of intriguing "linguistic ambiguities" that make one wonder. The first of these (not pointed out by our anonymous article contributor) is the unusual language concerning the United Nations organization:

Quote:5. We reiterate our commitment to multilateralism through upholding  international law, including the purposes and principles enshrined in  the Charter of the United Nations as its indispensable cornerstone, and  to the central role of the United Nations in an international system in  which sovereign states cooperate to maintain peace and security, advance  sustainable development, ensure the promotion and protection of  democracy, human rights and fundamental freedoms for all, and promoting  cooperation based on the spirit of mutual respect, justice and equality.

6. Recalling the BRICS Joint Statement on Strengthening and Reforming the Multilateral System adopted by our Foreign Ministers in 2021 and the principles outlined therein, we agree that the task of strengthening and reforming multilateral system encompasses the following:

• Making instruments of global governance more inclusive, representative and participatory to facilitate greater and more meaningful participation of developing and least developed countries, especially in Africa, in global decision-making processes and structures and make it better attuned to contemporary realities;
  

Translation: no way in hell we're going to allow the United Nations organization to transmute into a global government and give up our national sovereignty, and any view of using it to impose the old Western imperialism on Africa in a new guise is not acceptable. This is hightlighted by the later statement that the BRICS nations agree that the UN Security Council has the sole authority to level sanctions... take that, USA...

Beyond the usual double-talk of such boilerplate, however, there are a number of very peculiar parts of this document that relate to space. Consider the following paragraphs (and I have reversed the order of their appearance):

Quote:58. We welcome the establishment of the BRICS Joint Committee on Space Cooperation in line with the Agreement on Cooperation on BRICS Remote Sensing Satellite Constellation and the convening of the first joint committee meeting. We are satisfied with the formulation of working procedures for data exchange and joint observation of the BRICS Remote Sensing Satellite Constellation and appreciate the commissioning of data sharing and exchange of the constellation. We encourage BRICS space  authorities to continue to effectively utilize the capacity of the Constellation, and to widely promote application with data of the Constellation, aimed at facilitating the sustainable development of BRICS countries.

29. We call for strengthening the system of arms control, disarmament and non-proliferation, including the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction (BTWC) and the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction (CWC), and for preserving their integrity and effectiveness to maintain global stability and international peace and security. We underline the need to comply with and strengthen the BTWC, including by adopting a legally binding Protocol to the Convention that provides for, inter alia, an efficient  verification mechanism. We reassert our support for ensuring the long-term sustainability of outer space activities and prevention of an  arms race in outer space (PAROS) and of its weaponization, including  through negotiations to adopt a relevant legally binding multilateral  instrument. We recognize the value of the updated Draft Treaty on the  Prevention of the Placement of Weapons in Outer Space, the Threat or Use  of Force against Outer Space Objects (PPWT) submitted to the Conference on Disarmament in 2014. We stress that practical Transparency and Confidence-Building Measures (TCBMs), may also contribute to PAROS. (Emphasis added)

Now, as our anonymous contributor put it in the email accompanying the article, notice the reference to the use of force against "Outer Space Objects" and that the Brics nations are against this.  As our anonymous contributor noted, one does not use force against certain types of objects, like sand, or water, or forests, or even, to use another example from the context of the declaration itself, "remote sensing satellite constellations", which could certainly qualify as "objects" against which one might under certain circumstances use force, which, again, the BRICS nations in this declaration are against.

So let's extend our anonymous contributor's high octane speculations: why even mention such a thing? One answer is that, in 2022 when this declaration was made, the USA had already begun its strange media campaign of releasing its films and videos of "objects" in space, films very obviously - if not doctored or made up in a Disney studio - the result of military aircraft  gun camera footage. That idea alone implies military responses - "force" - perhaps being used against these things - or "objects".  A further context to this potential "war in space against 'objects'" is the strange remarks of President Ronald Reagan that Mr. Gorbachev subsequently revealed that Mr. Reagan had made to him. Basically Mr. Reagan's question was, "If ET attacks us, will you help us?" to which Mr. Gorbachev informed us that he had responded to Mr. Reagan's strange inquiry with a resolute affirmative.

So the BRICS declaration of 2022 actually poses a huge change on the part of one of those parties to Mr. Reagan's query, and therefore on the part of the BRICS nations of which it is a part: Russia. If the USA is shooting at someone out there, the BRICS declaration to which Russia is signatory is tantamount to saying "You're on your own..."

So the questions are, what changed, and when did it change, and why? In answer to that question, join me in crawling even further out on the end of the high octane speculation twig, and recall for further potentially relevant context the strange remarks made by Russian leader Dmitri Medvedev a month before the Chelyabinsk meteor incident, calling for an international effort to construct an "asteroid defense system," and his additional statement that if no one joined Russia in the effort, Russia would just have to do so itself. Questioned as to how Russia would defend against asteroids, Mr. Medvedev stated that Russia could perhaps use its many strategic nuclear missiles, and then cryptically mentioned "other means" which were left conveniently unspecified. Or consider Mr. Trump's strange remarks during his administration about needing "another" space force, and his equally strange remarks about other types of weapons beyond nuclear that no one would believe.

In other words, the 2022 BRICS declaration shows us something that, unless you're paying close attention, you might miss: it's showing us a rift among the space powers of the world regarding "objects in space", one side apparently confronting them with force, and the other saying to the first "you're on your own," and kuddos to our anonymous article donor for spotting it. So, again the questions are, what changed, when did it change, and why?

And that, good readers, is not a rhetorical question.  It may, indeed, be the most pressing geopolitical, and perhaps even spatiopolitical, question.

My communista-o-meter is giving higher readings all the sudden hmm


BIS Blueprint = Global Control of ALL Assets, Information & People

Quote:We’ve all heard the infamous World Economic Forum phrase “You’ll own nothing, and you’ll be happy.”  But how do global elites and central bankers intend to roll out this diabolical scheme?  Well, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) mapped it out in their recently published report on a proposed “unified ledger” called, “Blueprint for the future monetary system: improving the old, enabling the new.”


Control of All Assets
In simple terms, the BIS’ blueprint proposes that all private property in the real world, such as money, houses, cars, etc., would be “tokenised” into digital assets within an “everything in one place” global unified ledger.
CBDCs would be “core to the functioning” of this tokenised world and serve as the reserve currency on the unified ledger. Transactions between CBDCs and tokenised assets, which represent real-world assets, would operate seamlessly through smart contracts on one programmable platform.
Each token representing a real-world asset in this digital space would contain a large amount of data received from the real world in real time about what it is, who it belongs to, etc., as well as rules on how that particular asset can and cannot be used.  The BIS explains how these rules are set up by “directly embedding supervisory features into the token itself, which can be tailored to specific rules.”
The main takeaway of this BIS blueprint is that whatever happens in their dystopian digital world, has legally binding impacts on assets in the real world.  So, maybe the WEF’s catch phrase should be “You may own digital tokens, but we will control the real assets.”

Source: “Blueprint for the future monetary system: improving the old, enabling the new,” BIS, June 20, 2023

Control of All Information
The “data environment” of this unified ledger would encompass all the tokenized assets plus “all information necessary to incorporate real-world events into any contingent performance of actions.”  That’s a broad statement. 
We can only assume this means that the unified ledger wouldn’t just store tokenised versions of every piece of private property on the planet, but every piece of information from real-world events that could possibly impact assets or transactions on the global unified ledger.

Source: “Blueprint for the future monetary system: improving the old, enabling the new,” BIS, June 20, 2023

What kinds of information from the real world would be entered into this global database?  We can only imagine.  But the BIS does suggest that information stored and shared on this unified ledger could “enhance financial inclusion” by providing “disadvantaged segments of the population such as racial minorities,” with alternative forms of credit by using “non-traditional data,” a feature that ominously compares to a social credit system.

Control of All People
International organizations are coordinating to accelerate their plans for this global CBDC platform that centralizes control over all assets, information, and people.  On the same day that the BIS blueprint was released, June 20, 2023, Kristalina Georgieva, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) revealed that the U.N. financial institution is “working hard on the concept of a global CBDC platform.” 
The timing of this announcement by the head of the IMF, coinciding with the BIS blueprint, is no coincidence.  Georgieva remarked, “We used to say before the pandemic that the future was digital.  With the pandemic, the future arrived.  We now have an accelerated transformation.”
Financial expert George Gammon remarked, “The global elite have just revealed their Marxist agenda to control your life.”  Gammon added, “I don’t think most people can really grasp the type of power they would have.”  In this must-watch video, George Gammon breaks down the full BIS blueprint into plain language, including what it is, why it’s terrifying, and what you can do about it.

 
[i]Source: “BIS Plan For A GLOBAL CBDC Was Just Released,” George Gammon, June 30, 2023[/i]

“We are talking about a process of extreme financial repression, where they assert control of 100% of all real assets,” remarked Catherine Austin Fitts in the second half of a recent Financial Rebellion episode.
Fitts added that a unified ledger connected to a CBDC system is “so frightening because there’s only one way to achieve that, and that’s with massive slavery and mind control.”  Fitts also strongly believes that many of the efforts “to constrain our health freedoms” would be tied to this global unified ledger and “implemented by controlling transactions.” 
Catherine Austin Fitts highly recommended two Solari reports, under additional resources below, for more information about what financial transaction freedom means, what threatens it, and what we can do to prevent it from being taken away. 

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The money our elected representatives went into politics with and after a few terms are multimillionaires is astounding IMO.

No!, You're The VOICE! Aussie Referendum Talk!

Disclaimer: I'm a 50yr old gubba [aboriginal word for a white, hence 'government', guy] and I was BORN in Australia ok!

Explanation: There is going to be a federal political referendum on the 1st Nations Indigenous Voice To Parliament in Australia in October 2023.



And I would like to dispell some things about both the Yes  and No campaigns about the Voice To Parliament ...

Firstly here are the online PDF pamphlets for both the Yes and No campaigns sourced from the Australian Electoral Commission ... [CAUTION: It's a PDF file, therefor load at your own risk ok!!!]

https://www.aec.gov.au/referendums/files....pdf?=v1.0

Personal Disclosure: I have read over 50+ news article about the Voice To Parliament in the past 3 weeks and I have partaken in a 2 hr long philosophical and political debate about it with up to 10 other Australians, held at the Woden Library here in Canberra, 1 week ago.

I AM A HARD NO VOTER! ... And here is why ...

It is this simple ... YOU ARE THE VOICE ... and through your LOCAL FEDERAL MEMBER, you have a say, aka A VOICE, in the FEDERAL AUSTRALIAN PARLIAMENT ALREADY!!!

https://www.directory.gov.au/commonwealt...sentatives

Quote:What is a federal member?
The term member of parliament generally refers to a member of the House of Representatives, although it can also refer to a senator. To become a member of parliament you need to win a seat in a federal election. There are a number of requirements for enrolling as a candidate in a federal election.

Quote:What does a local member of parliament do?
A Member is expected to be a spokesperson for local interests; an ombudsman and facilitator who deals with concerns about government matters; a law maker; an examiner of the work of the government and how it spends the money it raises from taxation; and a contributor to debates on national issues.

Quote:The Australian Government directly spends around 1.5 times as much on Indigenous people on a per-capita basis, or 1.64 times as much if indirect spending (via transfers to the states and territories) is included (calculation based on IER 2017 supplementary data tables).

Quote:[Verse 1]
We have the chance to turn the pages over
We can write what we want to write
We gotta make ends meet before we get much older

[Pre-Chorus]
We're all someone's daughter
We're all someone's son
How long can we look at each other
Down the barrel of a gun?

[Chorus]
You're the voice, try and understand it
Make a noise and make it clear, oh, woah
We're not gonna sit in silence
We're not gonna live with fear, oh, woah

[Verse 2]
This time, we know we all can stand together
With the power to be powerful
Believing we can make it better

[Pre-Chorus]
Ooh, we're all someone's daughter
We're all someone's son, oh
How long can we look at each other
Down the barrel of a gun?

[Chorus]
You're the voice, try and understand it
Make a noise and make it clear, oh, woah
We're not gonna sit in silence
We're not gonna live with fear, oh, woah

[Pre-Chorus]
Ooh, we're all someone's daughter
We're all someone's son
How long can we look at each other
Down the barrel of a gun?

[Chorus]
You're the voice, try and understand it
Make a noise and make it clear, oh, woah
We're not gonna sit in silence
We're not gonna live with fear, oh, woah
You're the voice, try and understand it
Make a noise and make it clear, oh, woah
We're not gonna sit in silence
We're not gonna live with fear, oh, woah
You're the voice, try and understand it
Make a noise and make it clear, oh, woah
We're not gonna sit in silence
We're not gonna live with fear, oh, woah
You're the voice, try and understand it
Make a noise and make it clear, oh, woah
We're not gonna sit in silence
We're not gonna live with fear, oh, woah

I was very surprised to hear a friend report to me that she was concerned about the obvious effects of "global warming" that is so prevalent now.

My neighbor told me that we were headed for serious trouble because of global warming and that no one can deny it now that it is happening all over the world.

Both of these friends are as unpolitical as they come. I consider myself a centrist, but both of them make me look like a radical in comparison. So their comments had nothing to do with politics. They were speaking of their concerns about what is right in front of our faces.

Our planet is going through some changes. I do not for one second believe that our lack of stewardship to our planet, is the sole cause for what we are witnessing. I am pleased that people are starting to pay attention.

Possible day of The Rapture, Chaos, Recall Of The US Dollar, Fake Aliens, Day Of Destruction?

We don't have long to wait..... As in every case, prepare accordingly. 


Tish'a B'Av for Hebrew Year 5783 begins at sundown on Wednesday, 26 July 2023 and ends at nightfall on Thursday, 27 July 2023

Why July 26th & 27th 9th of Av is Such a High Watch Time!

This is quite good IMO .

I'm sure we have all experienced the broken down Mcflurry machine, or the ice cream machine that's "out of order," after craving one all day, only to be let down by the nice people at M'c-e-Deez or wherever. We have all seen the countless news articles and videos about all the people losing their minds, being denied some simple pleasure in life, like a damn ice cream cone when they want one. Shootings, killings, beatings, destruction of property and loss of all order and control. Well, I can pretty much see what the future will hold, as we drift ever closer to the robots and AI and machines replacing these jobs soon; and many others, as we are all forced into this new dawn of "Intelligence." 

Now, imagine, if you will, a time and a place when you go to your favorite little hotspot, to get whatever it is you are seeking; such as a Mcflurry, or whatever little treat you desire. Only instead of some beating heart with a soul there to do this job, you have a robot serving your "needs." Now, imagine, with everything we've been seeing going on in the world around us, this robot "breaks down." 

It's hard not to see the destruction when it's not just one person who cant get an ice cream. Now it's er'body not getting what they want...



I'll tell you all, and you all pretty well know it too, and we can call this prophecy, because it's a sure bet, but I see people destroying these "robots" and machines that will soon take over these jobs. One can imagine how expensive these machines will be. "Employers" will take more care of these robots than they ever did us silly humans. These corporations will not care when their patrons tear each other to shreds over some ice cream, but damage one of these machines and it'll be the electric chair for that person. This, of course will enrage people further, and we will have this snowball affect of anger and frustration that's already growing across the globe. This will sink society deeper into detachment from the people around them. The human to human interaction will fade away as people will desire these "machines" to human synergy. 

The introduction of the "AI/robot+human relationships" that will replace dating, marriage etc is coming soon. This is also obvious, but what happens when these AI robot loverboy or girl (or insert any gender here) "breaks down?" Or worse, goes "rogue."

I don't know about you all, but my cell phone doesn't even work the way it should a lot of the time. We all know these machines are going to be mass-produced and made just as "cost effective" as the rest of this crap tech we have now is made. And when all these robots and what-nots break down we will see our "SkyNet" style future a lot of us have been talking about. Only it wont be as cool. It'll be just a bunch of people being killed by "faulty equipment," er, I mean "AI-robot-lovers" they purchased at their local wal-mart. 

This is our future, Rogue-Nation. And yes, I'm being about 80% silly here, and twenty percent dead on. To the point Im calling this a "prophecy" because i can see this clearly, and it will happen when machines replace humans in these ways. The extent of violence people are going to over the simplest of things now, it's not too hard to see what will happen when things get even more overly complicated.


Feel free to add any humor or perspective you might have to this. Or tell me I'm a silly goof. Either way, this is the future our children will most definitely see.
Thanks for reading. Hope you got at least a little kick outta this.....even though "the rise of the machines" is coming soon...