I've only been awake for about an hour from an extremely interesting dream that might be of interest. In this dream limited time travel was a regular and to many people a daily occurrence. 

Anyone that wished could travel through time within a 5 year radius (up to 5 years into the past or future). There were hubs located in every city that were set up similar to TSA screening areas in airports but the gates were skinny and padded so you had to squeeze through while simultaneously pressing a button with your thumb on a personal handheld device. There were guards and scanners that made sure you didn't bring weapons or explosives through.

My job that I went to every day was 3 years in the future. In the evenings and on weekends my friends and I would travel to the past to spend time with friends and family who had passed on. On one trip I smuggled medication to a friend who had passed from a disease that had a cure in my "present" and she lived on.

Those 15 minute cities we all read about? I lived in one. Rent was free and everyone was given an apartment that was very nice and about the size of a large shipping container with free utilities but you had to work for everything else. Nobody owned cars, you either walked or rode free public transport (trains and light rails). From what I understood many people still lived outside of 15 minute cities- it was your choice, though crime was nearly non-existent in the cities due to the screening process when applying for residency rather than extreme law enforcement. 

Every job was required to provide health insurance and retirement, benefits rolled over when you changed jobs. Illegal drugs weren't really a thing in the cities as there were clubs where you could order your drug of choice the same as ordering an alcoholic drink- but you had to pass through security and scanners when exiting to make sure none left the club. Cigarettes were not a thing but you could travel into the past and find them. Burials didn't exist anymore, all remains were cremated. Pets were not really a thing in the cities either, at least not that I saw, but there were birds and squirrels and such outside and many people fed them. Cash was actually still used but it was rare. Travel outside of the cities was not hindered and even encouraged.

That's mostly what I remember from the dream, if I remember more I will add. Just thought some of you would find it of interest. Now I'm off to get artsy. Have a great week Rogues!

Edit to add: Visitors to the cities had to be able to pass the same stringent background checks as residents. Their IDs were scanned and their complete background came up on a screen. Any serious criminal infractions were red flagged and entry was denied. However they could always travel back in time 5 years and visit before this was put into place if necessary.

As I’ve mentioned on several occasions, we live about 15 miles south of a tiny nowhere-ville town in eastern Colorado.  Periodically, a little local rag of a local newspaper shows up in our mailbox down the road.  I read this with much zeal and excitement (whenever it shows up)!  It’s about the only thing that ever happens out this way, way out here in the sticks.
 
Just tonight I spied a new edition sitting on the counter.  My wife must have gone to the mailbox on one of her expeditions somewhere.  Cool!  Anyway, the headline story in this month’s (errr…week’s) edition is this huge, just YUGE I tell ya', story about a 'cockfighting' ring the local Sheriff’s Deputies busted.  Took a whole bunch of dudes to jail I guess.  And, you just knew it too…all Mexicans, many of them illegals, go figure!  I couldn’t believe it!  A ‘cockfighting’ ring in our own tiny little town…unbelievable!  Just unbelievable!  And ya’ know, I just don’t get it, I really don’t!  Damn Mexicans.

Our little town is so small, we don't even have a single traffic signal/light (not even a flashing yellow at the school)!  And yet, here we are, with a major "cockfighting ring" going on nightly, right under our very noses!
 
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…bunch of dudes, bangin’ their cocks off one another’s!!  …and for what reason???  What’s the matter with people these days???  These are grown men for cripes sakes!!!  What kind of twisted people are there these days???  The whole damn World is goin’ to pot!  Next thing ya’ know, a bunch of damn women will be out there, runnin’ around nekkid, bashin’ their ‘dew-lilies’ off one another’s…for money no less!!  Unbelievable!!

And the hell of it is, there are other guys who actually pay money, hard earned money, to go watch and bet on this retarded shit!!
 
That is all.

Edit - I'd post a link to this unbelievable and sensational news story, but our little paper just got running water in their joint, ain't no way them people ever heard of the 'interwebs' over there!! But, I promise ya, I'll go look...just to be sure!

Quote:

Quote:L. Ron: Don’t you be tarot-fied, it’s just a token of my extreme.
Joe: Oh, oh, oh, Mystical Advisor
What is my problem, tell me, can you see?
L. Ron: Well, you have nothing to fear, my son!
You are a Latent Appliance Fetishist, it appears to me!
Joe: That all seems very, very strange
I never craved a toaster or a color T.V.
— Joe’s Garage Acts II & III, Frank Zappa

AI is changing how we think about money.

When I was a Paduan learner, we used to joke that at least they can’t tax air. Then the bastids created global warming, which evolved and expanded into climate change, which allowed them to tax sunshine, as well.

As I read and listen to a wide variety of commentators on the current global situation, it strikes me that few of them actually understand what’s going on. The entire global economy is being dismantled by design, and there is not much anyone can do about it.

All the “green” energy transition nonsense is to wean us peons off of the good stuff, so “they” can save the hard core power sources for their data centers. What “they” are trying to do is create a precise model of our world, and tokenize every…single…piece of it. The idea is to monetize and weaponize literally everything. You won’t be able to do anything without your “smart” devices, and “they” will allocate and tax everything down to the molecule.

All these little ‘fit bit” thingies? That’s your personal monitoring system. Don’t get enough exercise, or have chronic health issues? Your access to medical services will be rationed, since you don’t deserve good health care.

Eating too much protein? Your per-gram tax will go up to control your access to beef, pork and chicken. Not sleeping enough at night? You will have a curfew and your electricity rations will be cut at night to take away your distractions. Regularly exceeding your travel allotment per week? Your access to enter or leave various zones will be restricted.

This is happening right now in China, which is the test bed for this authoritarian nightmare. Folks can’t get enough of this technological imprisonment. Everyone is equally miserable. Everyone gets punished or rewarded according to their behavior. They can even rat out folks who aren’t part of the Collective—see Star Trek TOS, Return of the Archons,” to see what’s coming at you. Landru loves you.

Oh sure, there are some benefits. If you are a good little Collectivist, your taxes and fees will go down, you’ll get extra rations, and your freedom of movement will relax. Think of it as an extension of loyalty points or air miles—the more you comply, the more bennies you rack up.

It’s already under way. If you use 2-step verification for any account, you’re tagged. It’s not about security, it’s about subverting VPN and finding your phone’s location. If you use any form of biometrics to log into anything, you’re in the system. If you have gone through Know Your Customer processes for any account, your privacy is no more.

We are being herded into this system through the use of various scandals, emergencies and other subterfuges to get you plugged in one way or another. As the system builds, you will be tokenized, as will everything you consume and produce down to the molecule. All that data will be scoured and patterns will be established so that your behavior can be predicted with a fair amount of accuracy.

If you have a smart phone, then your daily movements can already be broken down into minute-by-minute maps. Malls and other commercial interests are already using this to build a customer profile, pushing vouchers and coupons at you depending on where you are standing at that moment.

You may think that not using a smart phone makes you immune, and you’d be wrong. Any electronic device at all—dumb phones, pacemakers, radios, pagers, even your car are all connected to the Internet of Things (IoT) and publishing your location every second of the day.

Any more, we can’t even trust jabs and pills. Your prescription might be tagged with nano-transmitters similar to RFID chips on products. All your bank accounts and credit cards are logged and all your economic activity is duly logged—what bills you pay, what subscriptinos you have, what treats you give yourself every month.

Generation by generation, we’ve all been conditioned to accept a bit more of the Gilded Cage. The minute we allowed every home to have an individual address, the process had begun. It’s been a process of narrowing the address down to your person ever since. It only takes one small crack to breach a dam. Think of the Magician’s Apprentice in Walt Disney’s Phantasia.

Is there a ray of hope in all this bleakness? Why yes, there is.

The most basic hope is that human nature abhors captivity and it cannot be changed. Though “they” are working feverishly on it, they haven’t yet been able to breed this ineffable quality out of us. There are always radicals, outlaws and subversives who rise up to throw wrenches into the cogs.

The second ray of hope is that every complex system is beset with random errors that cannot be predicted or eliminated. Over time, these errors multiply until the system collapses. “They” are also working frantically to solve this problem, but it can’t be done, because in our Universe any sufficiently complex system always breaks down. The current central banking system is a great example. In just over a century, the faults within the system have multiplied to the point that it is collapsing at this very moment.

Think of the chaos theory guy in Jurassic Park.

Universe loves entropy and dissipation of energy. Any amount of organization must always corrupt and collapse. Kodak, once the dominant global name in photography, shut its doors recently. They invented digital photography, but the decision to sit on the technology so as not to harm their chemical-mechanical industry led to this moment. A fallible human made a fallible choice that compounded to bring down an empire. As Lord Acton noted a while back, “Absolutely power corrupts absolutely.”

Keep in mind that “corruption” is just decay and rot. It is not necessarily a choice to do evil, immoral or unethical acts for personal gain. Corruption is built into Universe as a means to recycle raw materials for other being to organize to their liking.

In the immortal words of Robert Blake, “The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men, Gang aft agley.” Though the overlords struggle mightily to build their ivory towers, they can never control everything, no matter how much they try.

And that’s a good thing.

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In keeping with Robert Burns’ theme, today’s cultural tapestry is the brilliant Of Mice and Men (1939), with the great Burgess Meredith playing George, and the iconic Lon Chaney Jr. playing Lenny. If you aren’t openly weeping by the end of this movie, you have no heart. If you’re one of those quaint hold-overs who still read, John Steinbeck’s novel is amazing. One of my early performances was the character Boss in the stage play, and it’s stuck with me for 50 years.

I thought I posted a thread on this work in progress before. Perhaps it was at the old rogue-nation. Ninurta would remember when I started this one.

"The Shadow Walker - Jacob Carl Novak"

This story is based on “Kolchak: The Night Stalker”, an American television series that first aired in the 1974–1975 season. “The series followed wire service reporter Carl Kolchak, who investigates mysterious crimes with unlikely causes involving the supernatural”. The Title “Shadow Walker” is in a number of books and movies and has different meanings. Here, a "shadow walker" is a Native American Indian term for a person who walks in two worlds.

It needs to be mentioned that the Kolchak series was the inspiration for the “X Files” that aired from 1993 to 2002. That is a contributing factor in that much of the inspiration for these stories is based on 90s alternative music and that there is a female partner involved.

I have three chapters completed, each of around 5,000 words per chapter. As webpages, I have chosen to have around 1,000 words per page, with around 5 pages per chapter. A printed paperback would have more pages with less words, but these pages function more like sub-chapters.

The first page is merely the preface (quoted below) introducing the story, please link to the following page to continue reading all 15 pages that comprise the first three chapters. At the end of each page is a link to a forum where you can comment on the ongoing story. You have to join this forum, as I don't allow open guest comments.

Quote:  Jacob Carl Novak, an investigative journalist, is following a dark path in a quest to find solid evidence that supports his late uncle's unpublished files. Jake loves his uncle's stories and wants desperately to provide a logical conclusion to the unexplained cases. He is interested in facts in his reports, pursues a story where ever it may go, and is a rather scruple-less character that will do anything to investigate a story he's interested in. Jake will leave his old life behind and come to understand that not every case he investigates has a verifiable explanation. He is joined by a number of interesting characters in his quest for the truth that leads into the deepest darkness.

A team of scientists from Stockholm University are using the shadow Earth provides to obscure man made satellites and look for Extra Terrestrial technology that may be hanging around our Solar System , they've created an  automated search system, called NEOrion, which may have already found an anomalous contact.

Quote:Human satellites typically don't carry optical light sources, with rare exceptions like communication lasers or spacecraft thrusters. So any bright flashes or streaks detected within Earth's shadow could potentially indicate something more exotic.

The researchers analyzed images from the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), a telescope in California that systematically surveys the sky for changing objects. They examined over 200,000 images, specifically focusing on those captured within Earth's shadow.

Their automated search system, called NEOrion, detected thousands of candidates, including mysterious streaking objects and point source flashes. Most turned out to be meteors, aircraft, or known asteroids.

However, one intriguing case emerged; an uncatalogued object moving much faster than typical asteroids and not found in any existing space object databases. Sadly, however, the team was unable to confirm what it was, so it still remains a mystery.

https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-...ien-probes

This evil BIATCH was pure evil . 
I think most of us have seen the animation of an abortion. 
This video includes the stomach scan video of the actual procedure (watch the bottom part)

There are just no words to describe this evil. 

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/86bNtAg8ax4

Please spread the video far and wide. More people need to be made aware of the level of horror that happens during an abortion.

Quote:Vietnam BANS Gas Vehicles, Falls for WEF's Green Trap! Vietnam has just announced a plan to ban gas vehicles nationwide starting with Directive 20. The government calls it a green revolution. But Attorney Ken Duong asks the hard questions: is this really about saving the planet or is Vietnam walking straight into the World Economic Forum’s Green Trap? With pollution levels soaring to 266 micrograms PM2.5 in 2025, the stakes are higher than ever, could this be about more than just clean air? As the world backtracks on EV mandates, think UK’s delay to 2035 and Germany’s 29% EV sales drop, why is Vietnam charging full speed ahead? his isn’t just about cars. It’s about the future of the Vietnam economy, the global push of Agenda 2045, and the shadow of The Great Reset from Davos and the World Economic Forum’s Agenda 2045. Behind the green slogans, who really benefits and who loses? In this video, Attorney Ken Duong breaks down what’s at stake. Will Vietnam’s bold move accelerate progress, or chain the nation to global elites? Could this be the elite’s next lab test, with digital IDs and control grids looming on the horizon? This is more than policy. This is a fight for sovereignty.

Quote:AJ Gentile is an American producer, writer, actor, and YouTube personality best known as the creator, host, and writer of "The Why Files," a channel that delves into conspiracy theories, mysteries, and unexplained phenomena with engaging storytelling and a skeptical lens. Before gaining fame on YouTube, Gentile worked in Hollywood as a producer and writer, contributing to projects like The Naughty Show (2011) and Stoned Science (2018), and provided voice-over work, including roles in The Legend of Korra. In 2011, he co-founded SpeedWeed, a cannabis delivery company, with his brother Gino and wife Jen. The Why Files has amassed a large following for its professional, encyclopedia-like analysis of conspiracies without interruptions.

I wasn't aware one could translate within the same language 

(I edited the screenshot so as not to be too offensive)



Another attempt at the same rendered it as "canine feces" ...

Quote:August 15, 2025 / Joseph P. Farrell

This story was shared by S.D., with our gratitude, because when I read it, I knew we're looking possibly at one of the most significant financial moves in recent memory: Switzerland is abandoning the London Bullion Market Association, which is basically much of the world's over-the-counter bullion trading, and moving much of its gold smelting capacity to the USA:

SWISS RELOCATION SIGNALS LBMA ABANDONMENT

You'll note that this short article occurs in a context of other articles about the de-industrialization of Western Europe, the re-industrialization of North America, talk about the Federal Reserve revaluating gold reserves, Trump's tariffs, not to mention Western Europe's crazy and lunatic policies:

Quote:Degrowth ideology, WEF agendas, immigration strains, and energy policy dysfunction are accelerating Europe’s deindustrialization. Switzerland’s willingness to relocate confirms this shift. It is a clear signal of both U.S. gravitational pull and EU fragility.

“The next bright-white flight… will be out of Europe and into the U.S.”


This observation maps business relocation, elite and capital migration. When capital leaves, political influence and strategic pricing power follow. For gold, this means potential pricing mechanisms move back to the U.S., ending centuries of Western European dominance.

Note that one predicted effect will be the flight of "bright white Europeans" from the continent to America, a kind of Europe-wide version of the "brain drain" experienced by Great Britain during the 1970s, as professional and academic Britons fled to more welcoming business and academic environments in North America and Australia.


Beyond this, there is another crucial bombshell in the article about the effects that the Swiss move may have, and ponder this one long and hard for its long-term implications for US fiscal and monetary policy:

Quote:Refining dictates certification. Certification dictates deliverability. Deliverability affects futures convergence and arbitrage. This domino structure cannot be underestimated in terms of pricing influence. It is a nod to gold’s growing importance to US policy.

And at the end of the next article we find this:

Quote:This professional, slightly dismissive tone reveals more than it conceals. Revaluing gold introduces market discipline, something incompatible with unrestrained fiat issuance. It also decentralizes control from the Fed to the Treasury.
...

However, once revaluation is enacted, the asset becomes politically toxic for Gov’t to sell to retire the actual debt. The government would likely hedge, but physical sales would become controversial. This kind of cements the asset’s status as a balance sheet anchor rather than a liquidity tool.

The Fed recognizes that revaluation represents a sort of paradigm shift in the monetary regime. The U.S. Treasury, not the Fed, would wield increasing power. That shift cannot occur without institutional friction.

In other words, you're looking at very long term policy decisions - decisions that will long outlast Mr. Trump's or even his successor's administrations. But there's something else: if all this should prove to be true, then that "revaluation" that is strongly being hinted will occur, with, or without, the Federal Reserve's acquiescence or approval. That in turn means something else: the Fed's own "currency" will also be "revalued" eventually, and whether the Fed wants it to be or not, and as a result of that, the post-Civil War choices will again become front and center topics: convertibility, re-monetization of gold, re-monetization of silver, and an overall deflationary trend might again be the topics consuming policy discussions for much of the century.

If Switzerland's moves eventually transpire, those discussions in one form or another are all but an inevitability.  As the US Treasury resumes a more important role vis-a-vis the Fed, its own role in currency production will again assume significance (when, for example, was the last time you actually spent a United States Note in cash transactions? My bet is, most of you haven't even seen a United States Note, much less spend one; they're the paper currency with a red Treasury seal on the front, not a green one. And the reason you haven't seen one is that the Fed, when it came across them in its day-today dealings, deliberately withdrew and destroyed them. And by the way, John Kennedy was the last president under which they were issued and circulated...)

I raise the potentiality of these inevitabilities because they will, in turn, be used as "crises of opportunity" to stampede everyone into a false, fraudulent, and phony form of "gold" (and possibly even silver) monetization: the use of electronic transfer and convertibility systems.

Don't fall for it: demand the continuation of paper notes to preserve transactional privacy and security, and the actual ability to actually use physical gold and silver in any and all transactions.

Otherwise, it's the same old game, on steroids: we'll give you nothing, and you give us your hard assets. To put it somewhat differently, the Bretton Woods system and its post-Nixon aftermath are indeed over, but... "they" want to keep that system going for the bulk of the public, while they operate in a system of hard assets behind a one-way mirror, exchanging real and really convertible certificates of deposit.  There's a reason, folks, that those old one hundred thousand dollar bill were gold certificates, and only circulated among Federal Reserve Banks, while the same acts and executive orders that created it, made the private ownership of gold bullion or specie illegal. (Or to put it differently, the $100,000 gold certificate is itself proof of the existence of a secret system of finance, of a two-tiered system, one private, the other public.)

Which brings us to a final point: you know they're up to something, because amid all this talk of revaluation and the Swiss moving their smelting operations to the USA, no one seems to be talking about the other crucial component: how much gold does the United States actually have? What is its assay purity?

And to answer those questions - and to make any such system work -  one has to have trust, and trust can only be had by answering those questions. And those questions, in turn, cannot be answered without ... an open and transparent audit of those gold reserves. In short, even that secret two-tiered system is no longer sustainable. Why? Because nations are demanding repatriation of their gold? Why are they demanding it? Because they suspect the amounts and assay purity are being obfuscated. [China!]

It's about to get very interesting, and for a very long time. Take a look at that one hundred thousand dollar bill, and ponder its implications carefully. Note: no greenbacks for us bankers here (again, we bankers get the hard assets, you people get monetized debt and green pieces of paper). Indeed, it's not a greenback at all:



See you on the flip side...