I'm sure everyone has seen the derailment, subsequent intentional fire, and environmental impact in East Palestine, Ohio.

What I am surprised (not surprised?) is the lack of media coverage and attention from the government. Yes, it has been on the news. Yes, some in Congress have gone to the scene. Yes, Flashbang has mentioned it in his addled ramblings. 

A train full of chemicals is intentionally burned in a populated place, toxic crap is sent flying everywhere, wildlife dying, people getting sick, and comparative crickets. Where are all the greenies in the media who keep telling us to drive electric cars and eat bugs because we need to heal the environment? They must have also missed out on the Nordstream pipeline spewing tons of natural gas into the sea. Anybody seen Greta?

But compare this to other happenings. Did y'all know Rihanna is pregnant again? And famous people are arguing over it online? Now, that s*** is important. 

Anyway...

Here is an interesting website germane to the train incident. It provides access to the US rail system's defect detector system. There is a one of these about every 20 miles on most track. You can look up one near you and click on it. As trains pass over, they count cars, count axles, etc. One important thing they do is take temperature reading of the wheels and axels. Things get hot when bearings seize up. Once the train passes, all the information is sent via RF signal to the conductor. It allows them to take action if there is a problem.  

http://database.defectdetector.net/    

Here is a picture of the train in question before it derailed miles up the line:

 
While I am not a train engineer, that sure looks like there is a problem. Remember when I said the detector system sends data via RF signals? Well, those RF signals can be heard on scanner radios. If you have a scanner, just tune it into the frequency for your local detector and you can hear what is going on. More to follow on this...

That section of track is very busy. Some reports say up to 30-40 different trains per every 24 hours. I looked for data on the various Ohio rail data websites but there seems to be a lot of them currently off-line or experiencing data errors. All traffic was rerouted. This is costly and adds stress elsewhere in the system. 

https://railfan.com/ns-tries-to-get-back...ohio-main/

The cars in question were not labeled hazardous nor handled as hazardous. Yet, officials provided only two options for handling the emergency: let it be and hope it doesn't explode or do a release burn. I have yet to have it explained to me how either option would prevent toxic crap from getting everywhere. Of course with the burn, getting the tracks open again would be quicker than fixing a giant crater. I wonder if that lost revenue played any part in the decision? 

https://www.govexec.com/management/2023/...us/382970/

Here is some good S2 coverage of the incident starting at 25:30

Another excellent thought provoking discussion from stranger things in Montana, balloon flap circus, loose nukes during 9/11 (?), speculation of a secretive NRO group within the NRO, strange events past & present synchronicity, Disinfo warfare, and more, all seemingly tied to the UFO file.

Quote:BAD INSIDER NORAD OP COG ACTIVATION (Continuity of Government)
Please join us as Dark Journalist Interviews Oxford Scholar Dr. Joseph Farrell on the new wave of UFO and Balloon  Shootdowns and the unusual response of NORAD and the Biden Administration. Dr. Farrell looks deeply at the development of the UFO Threat narrative as a prelude to the enactment of Emergency Powers and the activation of Continuity of Government with NORTHCOM General VanHerck at the helm  of the new Regime.  In this special episode they will also delve into an obscure program called “Bad Insider” that Dr. Farrell has researched as part of the drill that happened during 9/11. 

DJ brings up the possibility that there is a second National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) he refers to as NRO-2 that keeps its presence unknown as the first NRO did during the first 30 years of its existence. He surmises that NRO-2 is handling this phase of intelligence gathering during the development of a False UFO Threat with careful observation Genuine UFOs that dominate the skies worldwide.

I'm sure this or a similar topic has been posted here, but here it goes. I must say I think that most of us have considered what they go over in this article, but it's good for a revue of our options and to get a discussion going.

Quote:How To Resist CBDCs - 5 Ways You Can Opt Out Of This Dystopian Future
by Tyler Durden Saturday, Feb 18, 2023 - 02:30 PM

There’s an excellent chance governments worldwide will soon force their citizens to use central bank digital currencies (CBDCs).

CBDCs enable all sorts of horrible, totalitarian things.

They allow governments to track and control every penny you earn, save, and spend. They are a powerful tool for politicians to confiscate and redistribute wealth as they see fit . . .

Would a CBDC have saved the Zimbabwe dollar, the Venezuelan bolivar, the Argentine peso, or the Lebanese lira?

I don’t think so. And a CBDC won’t save the US dollar or the euro either.
But that doesn’t mean governments won’t try implementing CBDCs… with immensely destructive consequences for many people.

While I believe CBDCs will inevitably self-destruct, nobody knows how long it will take for that to happen. Communism was also destined to self-destruct, but it took generations. I don’t think it will take nearly that long for CBDCs to fail, but that’s just my guess.
Therefore, the big question everyone should be asking is this… 

What will you do when the government forces everyone to use CBDCs?

WW2 carrier operations and the pilots who survived

Scarfolk is a town in North West England that did not progress beyond 1979. Instead, the entire decade of the 1970s loops ad infinitum. Here in Scarfolk, pagan rituals blend seamlessly with science; hauntology is a compulsory subject at school, and everyone must be in bed by 8pm because they are perpetually running a slight fever. "Visit Scarfolk today. Our number one priority is keeping rabies at bay." For more information please reread.

Blog I stumbled across the pond that had me (I'm sure BIAD knows of this palace of laughter)

Quote:Identified Flying Objects (& Esoteric Truth)

In the 1970s, the distinction between fact and fiction completely broke down as a result of years of government fabrications, corporate deceit, media falsehoods and systematic educational disinformation.



Objective truth gained an esoteric, almost occult status along with subjects such as ghosts, bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, pagan paediatrics and other unexplained phenomena. Many didn't believe that objective truth even existed.

The dwindling numbers of people who insisted that real facts were 'out there' were pushed to the fringes of society and labelled conspiracy theorists. They saw it as their duty to promote even the most rudimentary facts and reintroduce them into the public arena.



One area of so-called "arcane knowledge" concerned IFOs (Identified Flying Objects), which eventually caught the public imagination, or rather the lack of it. Sensationalised books and magazines about the topic flooded newsagents and bookshops (see pages above and below from The IFO Phenomenon (Corgi, 1977) and a pull-poster from IFO Monthly magazine). By the end of the decade, many people claimed to have had a "close encounter" with an IFO. Some even reported that they had been taken aboard such craft.



For more information about the suppression of facts in public discourse, see the Truth Reform Act of 1976 and mandatory de-education classes.

Quote:The Fact Ban (1976)



In 1975 the government discreetly tortured citizens to find out what they thought of its leadership. The results revealed that many participants thought the state "cheerfully totalitarian","despotic, but in a nice way", and "I'll say anything you want as long as you stop waterboarding me and give me back my eye."

The government sensed a need for change and announced that it would be introducing more liberal attitudes to its policies, particularly those relating to facts and information.

Facts had always been problematic for the government because of their inflexibility. Though the use of facts in state administration was strongly disparaged and had largely been expunged from political life, some civil servants stubbornly refused to yield to inexplicable reversals in party policy.

An internal council memo to employees read: "Facts do not serve the best interests of a successful government and we must not permit them to hinder our healthy economy with their tyrannical, oppressive insistence on what is and isn't true. If you must employ a truth, ensure that you are liberal with it -  untamed, unedited facts can be dangerous in the wrong hands. Ideally, you will create your own facts so that you can retain control of them."

In early 1976, as part of its Truth Reform, the government went a step further and initiated an all-out ban on unsanctioned facts, as can be seen from the above council leaflet distributed to employees. Until the end of the decade all facts were created and authorised by a new governmental department called the Fact Office or F-OFF for short.

Quote:Mandatory De-education Classes



Post-Truthism is nothing new. Following the Truth Reform Act of 1976, it became every citizen's civic duty to attend de-education classes. The state instinctively felt that knowledge and the educated people who wield it destablize governmental plans, especially those that routinely and deliberately disregard verifiable facts.

According to one de-education textbook: "A good or 'Schrödinger' fact is simultaneously true and untrue until such a time that someone in authority tells you which, though they may change their mind or substitute the fact entirely for another piece of information, fabricated or otherwise, that suits their personal or political needs."

It could take many years for a citizen to unlearn everything, particularly because they first had to learn the complex method of how to unlearn. (Also see the How to Burn Books book).

Additionally, because de-education classes were compulsory (and expensive), some people opted instead for lobotomies by backstreet barber-surgeons, who, it was later revealed, received government funding. These unregistered practitioners would lay their patients' heads on the bottom step of a staircase, then release a Slinky attached to a sledgehammer from the top step. If this procedure was unsuccessful, they would force the patients to binge-watch ITV talent shows such as Opportunity Knocks or the BBC's Come Dancing programme.

Quote:Confirmation Bias Goggles (1970)



Confirmation Bias Goggles were the first wearable technology to be wired directly into the brain. In addition to the pinhead-sized speaker which perpetually broadcast the statement 'Of course you're right!' into the auditory cortex, the goggles sensors could also switch off those parts of the brain that deal with troublesome emotions and feelings such as empathy, decency and healthy scepticism.

By tapping into the wearer's biases, the goggles literally deleted undesirable objects from the wearer's field of vision. Sights that were too dominant to be erased completely were visually falsified to validate the wearer's preconceptions.

By 1971, the state had adapted the goggles for use in schools. Children were told precisely what to think and what their personal opinions as adults would be. Unsurprisingly, everybody who tried the goggles, without exception, thought that they were a great idea. Each set comes with a free lifetime subscription to Cognitive Dissonance.

Quote:"Children: The Cause of All Crime"

In 1970 the Scarfolk Crime Commission embarked on the largest study into crime to date. After two years of intense investigation it found a startling correlation between the types of people who commit crime and their early life experiences.



The findings were unequivocal: 100% of criminals had also once been children.

The council immediately put into effect acts intended to reduce, if not entirely eradicate this insidious cause of crime. Thousands of children were rounded up in camps. Toys were burnt in massive pyres. Adults were sterilised. Anyone who had been in regular contact with children, or had ever been a child, was quarantined in vast bunkers specially built several storeys below the council building.

Though Scarfolk was reduced to a ghost town, the scheme proved a success. During the first month that these stringent measures had been implemented not one crime had been committed. Consequently, at the 1972 Conference of Sham Utopias, a local conservative MP predicted that the most successful towns, and even countries, of the future will be those that eradicate all citizens who have any connection to, or dealings with, children or the adults they grow into.

Quote:Memory Chemicals (1979)

The campaign and treatments were so effective that some people became inexplicably afraid not only to go outside but also to not go into rooms in their own homes in case they saw or overheard something forbidden.



Those who could still manage to venture into rooms immediately forgot why they were there and, following a deluge of confused calls to the authorities, they had to be reminded that they had forgotten, and should now forget that they had remembered that they had forgotten.

Quote:'Allclear' Open-Air Nuclear Bunkers

In 1971 the government's civil defence budget was slashed. Local councils limited their building of conventional nuclear bunkers and focused instead on cheaper alternatives, for the general populace anyway.



From government public information literature:

"Though secure, Britain's existing nuclear bunkers are cramped and do not offer the comforts of home living. Built from drab, uninspiring concrete, they are brazenly unaesthetic and because they lack natural light, occupiers risk becoming fed up during their stay.

"Government officials, royals and the independently wealthy have courteously opted to endure these cheerless conditions so that you don't have to*.

"We think that you and your family deserve more agreeable accommodation when that 4-Minute Warning jingle sounds.

"Enter ALLCLEAR, the government's new post-nuclear solution for YOU. ALLCLEAR Open-Air Bunkers are easily erected in approx. 60 minutes. They are light, airy and available in a choice of fun colours: orange or yellowy-red. They even come with their own FREE power-string, velcro all-seasons flap and a multipurpose stick [...]

"*Please note that any attempt to secure a place in a traditional concrete bunker (and in doing so compromise the well-intended benevolence of the above mentioned persons) will be rejected with extreme prejudice."

Things that make ya go hmmmm  

I was floored when the JunoCam returned our first video ever taken of it's approach to Jupiter and it's Moons!

I had to create a video of it straight away! It was like looking out the Enterprise Observation Lounge.
 

The legendary Art Bell is a great example of why you shouldn't become famous for weird stuff..unless you have the cajones to persevere. His FBI file is full of death threats, stalkers, and people faking chat logs to frame him for slandering the Phillipines.

FBI FOIA file on Art Bell released (from that Black Vault guy; with plenty of redactions) Also, some files on the one & only William "Bill" Cooper.

The FBI redaction code "b5" means: inter-agency or intra-agency memorandums or letters which would not be available by law to a party other than an agency in litigation with the agency. The other codes apply to personal and/or agent privacy info, you know like "names & places."

Little known factoid: I had lived ~17 miles away from Art Bell's compound in Nevada.

Art Bell used to make reference to a phenomena he called "The Quickening" (tribute to the movie "Highlander"), a phenomena that would send all of humanity across the threshold of a complete paradigm shift. I'd say that shift has arrived and currently ongoing!

In 1997 he published a book titled The Quickening: Today's Trends, Tomorrow's World

Quote:In the past, advances in technology have served as the impetus for far-reaching change; we are propelled forward, and our lives are changed forever. Technology is the difference between where we are now and the path not taken. Not only is technology an important example of how aspects of the Quickening overlap and affect each other, much like a patchwork quilt, but technology is the core of the Quickening.

Indeed you can see that the boundaries of the aspects of the Quickening are blurred; here you have seen that technology affects the way we behave in society, it affects our global safety, it affects our political ties, and much more. We can look forward to astounding numbers of technological advances in the very near future. For the "Millennium Generation" and beyond, the sky will be the limit. At any rate, you should take a good look at the world around you because it won't be the same when you wake up tomorrow.

The Quickening - Chapter 1

There has not always been a "grid" to live on, but folks managed to survive anyhow. This thread is meant to be a repository of knowledge from long-ago times, times when one could not just hop in the car and run to the grocery store. Times when travel was on foot, or at best horseback. Times when your main resources were within walking distance - but "walking distance" in those days spread a bit farther afield than it does now. It just took longer to cover it.

The idea for the thread came from Bally002, in a shoutbox discussion. He's building what we called here a "root cellar", and since I grew up with root cellars, smoke houses, spring houses, etc. I offered some input, which I will reformat and post in this thread for posterity.

My Dear Old Dad insisted that I learn how to live by the Old Ways, because he always said the time may come when I'd have to be able to do for myself, because there might not be anyone available to hire for it. He said grocery stores were "a new thing that might not last", and I'd have to be able to work around it if none were available.

So we raised a garden, and we raised critters... and sometimes the two intertwined. For example, we plowed the garden and cultivated it with horses rather than a tractor. Horses burn hay, don't need a gasoline delivery. You get the fuel for them right out of the pasture. That can be handy when supply chains collapse or inflation prices commodities out of reach.

We also used the horses to fertilize the garden. One of my chores was mucking out the stalls and spreading fresh straw on the floor of them. I'd throw that mixed straw and horse manure into a manure pile ( I think they call it a "compost pile" these days), and let it set there to rot down When it got ripe, we'd use a half-sole sled (which we also built) drawn by the horses to haul the fertilizer out to the garden, then plow it under and let it work over winter to enrich the ground for the next spring's crop.

Funny thing about those manure piles - they get HOT as it breaks down. You can watch steam rise from them on cold mornings, and I've seen them bare of snow after a snow storm because of the heat they generated. You had to pile it a fair distance from the barn, because pap swore it could get hot enough to set a barn on fire and kill all your stock... and that would put you back to square one. We built our own barn, but we didn't want to have to build a second one and restock it.

We built a small blacksmithing forge, and dad did the farrier's work of shoeing the horses himself.

We kept some stock, but not a wide variety. For example, we never raised cattle, so I know jack shit about cattle raising. We kept chickens and ducks, hogs and horses... and of course the obligatory predators, like cats and dogs, for hunting and pest control. There were a lot of other folks who raised cattle around here back then, so we could always trade for any cow-products we needed. Now most of the cattle are gone, and folks have taken to raising goats in the area where I grew up. The cattle kept the pastures clear, and now that they are absent, the cedar has retaken the land and grown a forest where I remember pasture being. So I reckon those goats may come in handy now.

Back in the day, a few folks raised goats, but it was hard to keep them in. They'd get out and go feral. River Mountain had a population of feral goats on it, which some of us thought was great - you could hunt them and eat them just like a deer, but there was no goat hunting season to get in the way.

Bally002, I believe, also has a farm section on almost the exactly opposite side of Earth from me, and has input from there to include as well.

So this thread is to be a "how to" repository of knowledge for hard times. You never know when they are coming, as Dear Old Dad always stressed to me - he grew up in the Great Depression, and was insistent that I be able to fend for myself since he knew all too well how easily it can happen to anyone.

If you have knowledge to add - and I know there are some of you out there who do - please feel free. It'd not a Ninurta thread or a Bally002 thread, it's a ROGUE thread. Something you know may help someone along in hard times of their own, so toss it here in the compendium!

I'll be making more posts with more information as time rolls on and I get them edited. You can, too!

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thought i post some of the best one hit wonders. stopped at the 90's cause as mr. segar said years ago, today's music ain't got the same sole.

so feel free to post your favorite one hit wonders, god knows there are a bunch of them out there and some of them from bands we all know.

here's one that the back story is true and cool. the band was a hard rock cover bar band during the disco days doing one night stands. they were finding it hard to get gigs, so the the leader of the band told the members that they were going to have to start playing dance music if they wanted to work and get paid, they didn't want to and kept on playing the clubs as a cover band. one night in at a club in Pittsburgh, where the audience was mostly black , during a break a somebody came up and asked, "Are you going to play some funky music, white boys?". Parissi grabbed a pen and order pad and wrote the sonf in 5 minutes. the song hit # 1 on the bill board and soul charts in 76 and was voted 93rd on the top 100 billboards greats hits in 2018, and has sold 2.5 million in the U.S. alone.





decided to post this in kinda keepin in the cross over idea and this is a one hit wonder. i also like the way this guy bugs out when he hears a tune he likes, and doesn't like.plus some of the stuff he comes up with is funny. his older ones are better then the newer ones and his Reaction on some other things aren't that great. but all ands all he seems fairly cool.