I've missed my fellow rogues!  

Thanks to @"NightskyeB4Dawn"#10 for taking it upon yourself to message BIAD for me.  I PM'd NightSkye at the other site asking if she got in, and I said I couldn't, and didn't know if they didn't like me, or if I was having a serious stupid moment.  Possibly both 

To explain my absence, you guys did the site change, and I went into house buyer's hell.  Trying to buy a house with a small mortgage amount (my wife doesn't work, but takes care of the kids and household) and an FHA loan, has been a nightmare, to say the least.

It looks like we finally got one though, and I can finally kiss America's armpit, Philly, goodbye.  We found a nice little farmhouse-style abode in a very small town and I'm extremely happy.  I was starting to get claustrophobic and angry in Philly.  People were rude and stupid beyond words.

I'm still a bit bummed.  We got outbid $4k on a BEAUTIFUL Victorian up the road from our pending house.  I feel like I'm cheating on my house, by still looking at pictures of that Victorian, with its original woodwork 

Anyway, it's good to be back again among my fellow rogues!

So this morning, a neighbor of mine stops by for a cup of coffee. He works for the Army as a civilian. They let him work from home 4 days a week. He's got a fancy setup on his phone that lets him be very mobile. Me and this fella go way back and it's nice having a friend as solid as he is.

This morning I can see he's got something bubbling inside. He shows me a .pdf of his agency's version of an Early Bird. What it says in there is that the Army is 25% below strength and that there's a pretty strong likelihood of it getting worse before it gets better. Our thoughts on this go right away to the 75% the Army does have: a few new guys who haven't figured life out yet and an entrenched DEI core who I don't think have the guts to face an armed and determined adversary ... let alone the capabilities of winning.

Now right here I want to point out another article that was in that .pdf. It pointed out that GEN Milley is going to retire with a security detail to protect him, much like a retired POTUS enjoys the company of the Secret Service. (I wonder if they have to protect him if he's in jail ?). The title of the story had something to do with this security detail 'trawling social media' for mean tweets about these chunts (the 'h' is silent in that word, BTW).

Most folks who understand business know the costs of your employees are usually equal to about one-half the total cost of doing business. It can be different, but the cost of paying someone to work for you is significant. Now if the Army isn't paying 25% of its personnel costs, but it's projecting that cost, and the gooberment is collecting taxes from us to pay for them ... do you wonder why all these generals need an armed security detail around them? Can you imagine what that armed security detail must cost? Remember ... if you see one guy on shift, there are four other guys waiting to take shifts behind him. Yes!! That many!! If it's a four-man detail, there are 20 guys on the payroll just to protect the asshole who said he'd tip-off China before we attacked them.


Anyway, I stewed on that all morning and figured I'd share. If it gets under your skin, do me a favor and don't copy/paste this in the note to your Congress Critter. The main article came out of the Washington Examiner: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/resto...eritocracy

Quote:Learn about the Schumann Resonances: Wild Free Organic Schumann Resonances Complete Guide - https://wildfreeorganic.com/schumann-...

Quote:Schumann Resonance

At any given moment about 2,000 thunderstorms roll over Earth, producing some 50 flashes of lightning every second. Each lightning burst creates electromagnetic waves that begin to circle around Earth captured between Earth's surface and a boundary about 60 miles up. Some of the waves - if they have just the right wavelength - combine, increasing in strength, to create a repeating atmospheric heartbeat known as Schumann resonance. This resonance provides a useful tool to analyze Earth's weather, its electric environment, and to even help determine what types of atoms and molecules exist in Earth's atmosphere.

The waves created by lightning do not look like the up and down waves of the ocean, but they still oscillate with regions of greater energy and lesser energy. These waves remain trapped inside an atmospheric ceiling created by the lower edge of the "ionosphere" - a part of the atmosphere filled with charged particles, which begins about 60 miles up into the sky. In this case, the sweet spot for resonance requires the wave to be as long (or twice, three times as long, etc) as the circumference of Earth. This is an extremely low frequency wave that can be as low as 8 Hertz (Hz) - some one hundred thousand times lower than the lowest frequency radio waves used to send signals to your AM/FM radio. As this wave flows around Earth, it hits itself again at the perfect spot such that the crests and troughs are aligned. Voila, waves acting in resonance with each other to pump up the original signal.

While they'd been predicted in 1952, Schumann resonances were first measured reliably in the early 1960s. Since then, scientists have discovered that variations in the resonances correspond to changes in the seasons, solar activity, activity in Earth's magnetic environment, in water aerosols in the atmosphere, and other Earth-bound phenomena.

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Quote:The Schumann Resonance is Earth's resonant vibrational frequency. The Earth has an electromagnetic field surrounding and protecting all living things with a natural frequency pulsation of 7.83 hertz, along with progressively weaker harmonics at around 14.3, 20.8, 27.3, and 33.8 Hz. These oscillations are called the Schumann resonances.

Quote:ARE THE GLOVES COMING OFF? PART ONE

June 19, 2023 / Joseph P. Farrell

During last Thursday's News and Views from the Nefarium, I read and reviewed a lengthy op-ed piece by Professor Karaganov that had appeared on RT's website. In the article, Professor Karaganov argued that Russia had to be willing to use nuclear weapons against the West, because the Ukrainian conflict is, for Russia, "existential," i.e., effecting its very national, cultural, economic, social, and political existence. In advocating this view, Professor Karaganov also indicated that, before such use against specified targets of value in the west, that Russia should issue warnings to the civilian populations near those targets before striking them.

As I interpreted this article, this was really the Russian government speaking through the mouthpiece of one of its academic advisors, to the Western leadership, and the message , in between all the radioactively glowing lines of nuclear escalation prose, was clear: the western political elite itself - not the people of the West - are now fair game for whatever measures Russia may think is the best method to pursue them and end them. As I've been warning ever since the "color revolution" and "Maidan coup" days, covert operations are a game that two or more can play, and thus far, it has been largely the West playing these games in the Ukraine. More recently, those games were expanded to bomb attacks on Alexandra Duginova, and even more recently than that, to drone attacks on the Kremlin itself and on dachas and apartments in the fashionable west side of Moscow, where even Mr. Putin is rumored to have a home.  It requires little thought to understand that such drone attacks would have had to have been carried out by teams or people on the ground, and that means covert warfare is being attempted against the Russians and their leadership class.

So my reading of the RT nuclear escalation article by Karaganov is relatively simple: if Russia is openly discussing the use of nuclear weapons, then this also means all other operations, including covert operations such as assassinations, drone strikes, asymmetrical warfare and so on, are on the table.

Today there is a bit of corroborative evidence of this interpretation. Consider firstly this article shared by V.T. (with our thanks):

Senior Russian Official: Putin Has Green Light To Sever Undersea Commo Cables
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Note that the Deputy Chairman of Russia's security council, former Prime Minister and President Dmitri Medvedev, has himself come out with a clear statement that since the West has attacked the Nordstream pipeline, Russia is under no moral nor legal restraint from attacking similar infrastructure assets:

Quote:Following reports attributing the September destruction of Russia's Nord Stream gas pipelines to the Ukrainian or US government, the deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council has declared that President Vladimir Putin should feel free to sever undersea communication cables of the country's "enemies." 

"If we proceed from the proven complicity of Western countries in blowing up the Nord Streams, then we have no constraints - even moral - left to prevent us from destroying the ocean floor cable communications of our enemies," [url=https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russias-medvedev-says-moscow-now-has-free-hand-destroy-enemies-undersea-2023-06-14/]said Dmitry Medvedev on Telegram. Medvedev was Russia's president from 2008 to 2012 and is a close ally of Putin.

Notably, this view that the covert/asymmetrical warfare gloves may be coming off are echoed by western experts:

Quote:Last month, NATO intelligence chief David Cattler warned of a rising risk of just such a move. "There are heightened concerns that Russia may target undersea cables and other critical infrastructure in an effort to disrupt Western life, to gain leverage against those nations that are providing security to Ukraine," he told reporters. Naturally, the NATO intel officer's list of potential motivations omitted retaliation-in-kind in the wake of the severing of the Nord Stream pipelines.

"The Russians are more active than we have seen them in years in this domain," Cattler told reporters, noting a higher pace of Russian patrols all across the Atlantic and in the Baltic and North seas. "Russia is actively mapping allied critical infrastructure both on land and on the seabed."

The oceans are a target-rich environment. More than 400 undersea cables carry more than 95% of international internet traffic. "Altogether, they carry an estimated 10 trillion U.S. dollars worth of financial transactions every day, so these cables really are an economic linchpin," said Cattler.

Regular readers of this website will recall that in the wake of the coordinated attack on a California electrical substation at the southern tip of Silicon Valley some years ago, and then yet another series of coordinated attacks on internet cables in San Francisco and Arizona some time later, as well as my blogs about internet hacking of major banks and corporations, that I argued these attacks were types of reconnaissance in depth, being coordinated at a high and professional level, and probably either by state actors or by very powerful independent non-territorial actors. Now, finally, after some years and more provocations against Russia, others in the West's leadership are saying the same thing.

Consider also the following article shared by T.M.:

Sweeping global cyberattack strikes U.S. federal agencies

Notice that the dateline on this article is the same day that I recorded my News and Views reviewing Professor Kaganarov's article on

nuclear escalation: June 15, 2023.  We'll return to this important point in a moment, but for now, note the following:

Quote:U.S. federal agencies are among the latest casualties of an extensive global cyberattack that exploits a flaw in commonly utilized software.

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has been providing support to an undisclosed number of federal agencies experiencing intrusions through their MOVEit applications, a software impacted by this attack, CNN reported.

CISA is actively seeking to comprehend the extent of the damage and expedite remediation, according to Eric Goldstein, the agency's executive assistant director for cybersecurity.

Uncertainty looms over whether the Russian-speaking ransomware group, which has previously claimed responsibility for multiple victims of the ongoing hacking spree, orchestrated this breach. CISA has not revealed the identity of the attackers or the exact number of federal agencies affected.

This incident adds to an alarming surge of cyberattacks over the past fortnight that has affected state governments, as well as leading U.S. universities. These increasing instances of cybercrimes heighten pressure on federal officials who have committed to curtailing the wave of ransomware attacks crippling schools, hospitals, and local governments nationwide.

According to Google-owned cybersecurity firm Mandiant, the attacks appeared to be orchestrated by state-sponsored Chinese hackers who exploited a security loophole in the widely used email security app, Barracuda Networks’ Email Security Gateway.

While widespread, these attacks interestingly enough appear to be concentrated against American governmental and elite structures; they do not appear to be concerned with small businesses nor their websites.

And this intriguing factoid returns me once again to the article of Professor Kaganarov that was the focus of last Thursday's News and Views.  There were two very intriguing take-aways from his article as far as I was concerned, and these two articles seem to buttress my conclusions that the article was sending a message, and that the message was that the gloves are going to come off. The first take-away was that Professor Kaganarov explicitly mentioned that there were about two dozen discrete steps in escalation prior to a full nuclear response from Russia. I submit that with these two articles about direct attacks on western internet and other infrastructure cabling, inclusive of electronic financial clearing (how's that Central Bank Digital Currency idea looking now?) and actual cyber-hacking attacks, that we are indeed looking at two of the rungs on that ladder of escalation. If the US can "try and convict" people and sentence them to "sudden death by drone" for being international terrorists, then one may reasonably expect this action might comprise the next rung on Professor Karaganov's 'ladder of escalation", as Russia tries and convicts specific Western leaders of acts of international terrorism, and sentences them to "sudden death by drone," people like George Soros, for example, against whom Russia has already taken out an arrest warrant for his alleged role in the 2014 Maidan coup in the Ukraine.

And that brings us to the second take-away  from Professor Karaganov's article, and that was the strange statement of his that, prior to any Russian nuclear attack on vital Western targets, it should issue warnings to people near those targets to move away from the area: "Attention neighbors and employees of the Soros interests; you might want to consider distancing yourself..." What Karaganov was really saying, it appeared to me, was that Russia has no quarrel with the average population of the West, many of whom are just as disenchanted with their political class as are the Russian leaders. He was signaling, as clearly as possible, that Russia intended to start targeting the western leadership, and the centers of power and infrastructure that sustains it.  If western sponsored teams can drop drones on the Kremlin or on apartments in western Moscow, then don't be surprised - he seems to be saying - if a drone or two, or three, or however many are needed to get the job done, start crashing over the homes of Victoria Nuland or Chancellor Scholz.

In short, putting all these articles together, it seems that we're looking at a formal declaration of the factional infighting/Mafia wars that are now going to become, sadly, a common feature of geopolitical life.

Of one thing we may be certain, and that is that the Bai Den Dzho family is entirely safe, because the Russians will not attack the assets of their Chinese ally...
See you on the flip side...

Language is ever changing.

This reminded me of my old English Literature class when I had to recite the, "Jabberwocky".

When I was a young adult, I knew that maturity came with responsibility. Now, being the oldest of eight siblings in the house at the time, I already had enough responsibility on my plate, but I knew that when my parents became old andcould not take care of themselves anymore, that my siblings and I would be responsible for their care. None of us ever gave it single thought otherwise.

It didn't quite play out that way. My Father died very early, he barely made 40. My Mother came to live with me because I needed help raising my sister's children, when she be became sick. I could not have done it without her. My job was extremely demanding, required many after hour meetings, and a lot of socialization. I think if it had not been for the children,  I would have likely left administration a lot sooner, and I may not have every learned about what goes on behind many a gilded door. But that is a post for another time.

My news feed spit out an article earlier today titled, "Suze Orman says now’s the time for boomers, Gen X to tell their adult kids 'I am no longer your bank account' and focus on their retirement nest egg."

https://moneywise.com/managing-money/ret...adult-kids

I found this an interesting piece, because I had just had this discussion last week with four of my friends. All four have one or more of their adult children living in their home, with their children, and two, have the adult child, their spouse and their children, and only one is bringing in an income.

If you look about social media and the internet, you will see that this is actually the new norm. One glaring thing about all of our new norms, is that tradition fades away.

Tradition has actually become a dirty word, and under certain circumstances, some will even call it hate speech.

Perhaps in the future, tradition will just be something that becomes myth or fairy tales, along with so much else.

So much is changing, so fast. Too fast.

It must be summer because it's time of year when the Big Fella reares his head.
No... not Oor Gordi, although the archived RN website does have an account (see bottom of this post)
where the tartan-wrapped Adonis did meet up with the famous monster. Nessie is relishing the cancelled
Covid rules and finally surfaced to take a breath of normality!

Quote:Tourist at Loch Ness spots 'huge dark shape' in waters sparking Nessie hopes

'For years, there has been much debate about whether the mythical Loch Ness Monster of folklore actually exists.
A tourist visiting Loch Ness has reportedly claimed to have spotted 65 ft-long dark shape moving just beneath the
surface of the water for several minutes.


Etienne Camel (Rodinus will know him!)                             The 'Thing' in the water.

Etienne Camel, a pharmacist from Lyon and his wife Eliane were snapping pictures from the west side of the loch
near Invermoriston when they thought to have spotted the long-reputed “monster”. He told the Telegraph: “It was
quite strange.

“I am a man of science so I never believed that the Loch Ness monster is a prehistoric animal. But when I was
taking a picture I saw this long, long shadow. “I called my wife over and we saw the shadow move.”
“I thought maybe it was a cloud, but there was none, or a boat, but none was near or reefs.

“There were small waves, like something was moving. It was 15-20m long and was about 150m away. It was
quite strange and then it disappeared.” He added: “We could not tell if it was an animal, but something was
moving under the water. I have never seen such [things] in lakes – and we have many where we live – before.”

For years and years, there have been theories that a monster lived in Loch Ness - but there has been no real
proof that it existed. The first stories of the monster dubbed “Nessie” emerged in 1933, after Francesca McGarvey
from Castlehead, Paisley, saw a dark shape emerge from the water. The Loch Ness monster is said to be a large
mysterious animal living in the waters of Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands.

The earliest reporting of a 'monster' sighted in that area was in the seventh century but others say the reports could
be rationally explained as encounters with similar types of animals. The legendary monster is known to some by the
affectionate nickname 'Nessie'. Some have suggested it may be a descendent of a plesiosaur - a species of water
-dwelling dinosaur - but again, the evidence is sketchy...'

Quote:Local Man Seen Interacting With Summer Favourite Just Off Shore Of Drumnadrochit.

                                                  (By our correspondent B. Dress.)

Local residents pretended to be astonished on Sunday, when tourists reported to the proprietors of the nearby
gift-shops of a man spotted behaving in a unusual manner in the nearby bay.

Where the rivers Enrick and Colltie meet to flow into Loch Ness, onlookers seemed bemused by the handsome,
athletic-bodied gentleman that those -who sell their low-quality metal king-rings and Hong-Kong-made bumper
-stickers to daily visitors, recognise as 'Gordi McGordi', gamboling in the peaty waters with the fabled beastie
-just north of Urquhart Castle.

Gordi, who strums to tourists and wrestles the occasional ox that strays near his property, recently caused a stir when
he invaded a meeting at the Unesco World Heritage site in Edinburgh and disrupted Scottish Parliamentary discussions
on whether the London Cockneys were worth hanging on to.

Straddling the imaginary animal with his firm un-rashed thighs, Gordi performed a couple of folk tunes accompanied by
his guitar and something beneath his sporran that kept the beat. Sadly, the gratuities tossed at him sank beneath the
waves, but the applause certainly made-up for any fiscal mishaps.

Asked later by the media on why he engages in this day-of-rest activity, Gordi was reported to have smiled and told the
Reporter to f*ck off. Obviously, Scottish humour is sometimes lost on southern scriveners and so to clear the air, Gordi
ceded to the Journalist's old ruse of abusing their expense account.
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In other news.

Public House Landlord Beats Reporter Half-To-Death  For Inability To Pay Bar-Bill.

Innkeeper Bruiser McTavish was severely reprimanded by the local constabulary on Sunday evening, when he was
suspected of being involved in an assault. McTavish of Drumnadrochit...

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I read "A Clockwork Orange" when I was about 12 or 13 years old. That book dug a place in my mind and subconscious. So often over the years I would find myself thinking that we were actually living it.

The book was made into a movie in the early sixties, but I did not see it until many years later. I found this video and thought that it did a good job of breaking it down.

A "Clockwork Orange" resonates even more today, much stronger than ever. Especially around 25:21 mark in the video. See anything that rings a bell?

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Q.How do you keep your car from being stolen?

A..Buy a standard shift model

 

 

Q..How do you send a message in code?

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Janie DuVall and Craig Bong reveals something terrifying coming from the Middle East in 2023. For when they shall say, peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them.

https://www.goalshouse.com/impact-report-2022

Quote:Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely the Second Coming is at hand. The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert A shape with lion body and the head of a man,

A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds. The darkness drops again; but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?