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Little Blitzen Steens trailhead.BLM War on cooling carbon sequestering wildlife habitat Western Junipers. Trees clearcut/piled/burned. Now a blistering hot hostile cheatgrass tinder box. They hate trees.

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Фото профиля Hot dish Midwest

Hot dish Midwest2 месяцев назад

This is horrendous. Junipers can live to be thousands of years old. I can understand culling younger trees, but leave the old growth. obviously they serve an ecological purpose. Some of the ones near where I used to camp in the Ochoco's just north of here were magnificent.

Фото профиля Brandy Hensley

Brandy Hensley2 месяцев назад

@skydogsanctuary I’m convinced their policies are designed to create massive wildfires. Just look at what they do and it’s hard to come up with a different conclusion.

Фото профиля Rick Kerner

Rick Kerner2 месяцев назад

Junipers burn like torches and actually spread fire. Where I live, they are a main cause of fires spreading to the canopy (taller pine trees.) Once fire gets into the canopy, there's not much to stop it from spreading. Hence, they are removed in fire hazard mitigation grants.

Фото профиля Link01

Link012 месяцев назад

Junipers consume a lot of water meaning nothing else can grow nearby in arid regions

Фото профиля Steven Haluska

Steven Haluska2 месяцев назад

Nothing but cheatgrass. Which means the area is very prone to fire now.

Фото профиля New Mexico Rockhound

New Mexico Rockhound2 месяцев назад

Yup. And, when you do find the single tree they leave behind, it's used as a cattle toilet.

Фото профиля Ryan Cook

Ryan Cook2 месяцев назад

Why is there a program to clear cut Junipers like that?

Фото профиля Zorion🔜BLFC

Zorion🔜BLFC2 месяцев назад

With the caveat that this summer is unusually dry, these fuels treatment projects are useless as fire holding features. Like the fire will burn to the end of them and then stop when it hits the PJ stand.

Фото профиля LM Cunningham

LM Cunningham2 месяцев назад

@lightsout4bird Ugh, that is awful

Фото профиля Debra Love-Goff🟦

Debra Love-Goff🟦2 месяцев назад

Why? Cause fire..wild horses lea and they don't have the expensive roundups and slaughter trucks taking them to be sold for meat across the 2 country borders. Clare us a Wild Horse Rescuer. Skydog and others will have the only remaining wild hordes in less than 5 yrs. Extinction.

Фото профиля lawrence

lawrence2 месяцев назад

We need to stop these people. This is ridiculous. Wtf.

Фото профиля Chris Burley

Chris Burley2 месяцев назад

Whoever that kooky lady is on the video obviously knows nothing about fires; junipers are like matchsticks. They are explosively flammable. They also suck up tremendous amounts of water from the landscape. Not saying cheatgrass is ideal either but woody plant encroachment due to fire suppression is a real thing.

Фото профиля Cactus Cathy

Cactus Cathy2 месяцев назад

I never knew how entitled I was while living in Tucson. Now I'm on the western slope and live among the endless sea of weeds due to farming. Cheatgrass is just one of many invasives I deal with daily.

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Trump is so far out of his depth that even he can’t lie his way out of this one. His stupidity and hubris has led him down a path from which there is now no return. Take a listen to this clip featuring Lawrence Wilkerson, retired US Army Colonel and former Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell. Wilkerson has been around the block a few times and has some bitter experience of these kinds of misadventures. The obvious question in this moment is what represents a road too far? Well I’m afraid Trump is on it wearing a new pair of his golden sneakers, he’s opened up a Pandora’s box and it’s full of geopolitical vipers. In his tiny little mind he’s said to himself, ‘I have the biggest most powerful army on the planet and Iran will comply or die,’ without a thought to the consequences. He saw opportunity for self-enrichment and bet his presidency and the Republican Party’s future on it. He always likes to say ‘in the good ole days’ when referring to wanting to make America great. In his mind, segregation and women knowing their place is his kind of golden age in which old grey white men set the rules and everyone falls into line. Times have changed, the age of gunboat diplomacy are dead I’m afraid. The very nature of war has changed. The writing has been on the wall since the Vietnam war, A conflict in which for the first time at scale, the US faced an insurgent enemy who melted into the population and then waged a relentless war of opportunity. A war where shock and awe plays no part, yet the U.S. appears to have learned nothing. Iran has 93 million people who have lived in a theocratic dictatorship for almost half a century. Trump decided to make this a holy war because he felt it was easier to sell. In his eyes, everybody hates Muslims right?. In his mind, America is now a reborn white Christian nation ready to fight a holy crusade against the evil Islamists. Mixing political power and religion has long been the holy grail of Western dictators. They believe they are doing the Lord’s work by eradicating the people that don’t worship their God. This religious fervour blinds the perpetrator to the truth that war rarely delivers the power those prosecuting it seek. Trump has followed Putin’s ‘Special Military Operation’ roadmap almost to the letter, but without the ground forces. He made the same assumption that victory could be had in weeks. As a result, he’s facing the same challenges Putin faced, a population that will never give up, they are forced to adapt to meet the challenges from a traditional large military adversary. Iran could never resist the overwhelming power of the US Air Force. They knew that, so while Trump brags about destroying air defences and the Iranian Navy, all indications to an idiot like Trump that he’s winning. The truth is, there was no real intention from Iran to fight this war on America’s terms. The Iranian leadership knows this is midterms year, Trump is spending a billion dollars a day to prosecute a war. They believe they can stretch out as long as is required. In their minds, they just have to wait him out. They don’t care how many civilians get killed because every civilian and child death is not only a recruitment Ad for the upcoming insurgency, it also paints the US as a monster on the world stage. Iran has a stock of millions of sacrificial lambs to expend on a war of attrition. They know this can’t be won from the air, and the US for all its power and might don’t have enough troops to win a war on the ground. The country is massive, the terrain is challenging and the Iranians are fighting in their own backyard. I have said it many times, the US has never won a war on its own EVER. Yet Trump’s malignant narcissism leads him to believe it will be different for him. He’s wrong, his dreams of empire are about to go up in flames and he’s going to take the American economy with him. It’s the definition of insanity. 🎥 TikTok -

Trump is so far out of his depth that even he can’t lie his way out of this one. His stupidity and hubris has led him down a path from which there is now no return. Take a listen to this clip featuring Lawrence Wilkerson, retired US Army Colonel and former Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell. Wilkerson has been around the block a few times and has some bitter experience of these kinds of misadventures. The obvious question in this moment is what represents a road too far? Well I’m afraid Trump is on it wearing a new pair of his golden sneakers, he’s opened up a Pandora’s box and it’s full of geopolitical vipers. In his tiny little mind he’s said to himself, ‘I have the biggest most powerful army on the planet and Iran will comply or die,’ without a thought to the consequences. He saw opportunity for self-enrichment and bet his presidency and the Republican Party’s future on it. He always likes to say ‘in the good ole days’ when referring to wanting to make America great. In his mind, segregation and women knowing their place is his kind of golden age in which old grey white men set the rules and everyone falls into line. Times have changed, the age of gunboat diplomacy are dead I’m afraid. The very nature of war has changed. The writing has been on the wall since the Vietnam war, A conflict in which for the first time at scale, the US faced an insurgent enemy who melted into the population and then waged a relentless war of opportunity. A war where shock and awe plays no part, yet the U.S. appears to have learned nothing. Iran has 93 million people who have lived in a theocratic dictatorship for almost half a century. Trump decided to make this a holy war because he felt it was easier to sell. In his eyes, everybody hates Muslims right?. In his mind, America is now a reborn white Christian nation ready to fight a holy crusade against the evil Islamists. Mixing political power and religion has long been the holy grail of Western dictators. They believe they are doing the Lord’s work by eradicating the people that don’t worship their God. This religious fervour blinds the perpetrator to the truth that war rarely delivers the power those prosecuting it seek. Trump has followed Putin’s ‘Special Military Operation’ roadmap almost to the letter, but without the ground forces. He made the same assumption that victory could be had in weeks. As a result, he’s facing the same challenges Putin faced, a population that will never give up, they are forced to adapt to meet the challenges from a traditional large military adversary. Iran could never resist the overwhelming power of the US Air Force. They knew that, so while Trump brags about destroying air defences and the Iranian Navy, all indications to an idiot like Trump that he’s winning. The truth is, there was no real intention from Iran to fight this war on America’s terms. The Iranian leadership knows this is midterms year, Trump is spending a billion dollars a day to prosecute a war. They believe they can stretch out as long as is required. In their minds, they just have to wait him out. They don’t care how many civilians get killed because every civilian and child death is not only a recruitment Ad for the upcoming insurgency, it also paints the US as a monster on the world stage. Iran has a stock of millions of sacrificial lambs to expend on a war of attrition. They know this can’t be won from the air, and the US for all its power and might don’t have enough troops to win a war on the ground. The country is massive, the terrain is challenging and the Iranians are fighting in their own backyard. I have said it many times, the US has never won a war on its own EVER. Yet Trump’s malignant narcissism leads him to believe it will be different for him. He’s wrong, his dreams of empire are about to go up in flames and he’s going to take the American economy with him. It’s the definition of insanity. 🎥 TikTok -

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A tree stood in that backyard for probably 40 years. Nobody who walked past it, sat under it, leaned a bike against it, ever knew what was living inside the trunk. Then someone cut into it. And what came out shouldn't be possible. Not sap. Not resin. Water. Gallons of it. Pouring out of solid wood like someone left a hose running inside a living organism. If your first reaction is "that's fake" — I understand. I had the same reaction the first time I saw footage like this. Trees are supposed to be dry on the inside. Bark, wood, rings, maybe some sticky sap if you're unlucky enough to touch a pine. Nobody grows up learning that a tree can be a pressurized tank. But here's the thing nobody tells you in school: some trees are. There's a real, documented, scientifically studied phenomenon behind this, and once you understand it, you will never look at a tree the same way again. I'm going to walk you through exactly what's happening inside these trees, why it happens, which species are famous for it, the wild historical accounts of people discovering it by accident (sometimes violently), and why arborists still get caught off guard by it after decades on the job. Stick with me. This gets stranger the deeper you go. — FIRST: the phenomenon has a name. Arborists and plant pathologists call it "wetwood," and in its more advanced, foul-smelling form, "slime flux." It's not folklore. It's not an urban legend some guy made up on a forum. It's in forestry textbooks, USDA plant pathology bulletins, and arborist training manuals. Here's the mechanism, stripped down to plain English: Trees have a core of heartwood — the dead, structural center of the trunk that no longer transports nutrients. It's basically the tree's skeleton. In most trees, that heartwood is just dry, solid wood. But in certain species, under certain conditions, bacteria colonize that heartwood core. Anaerobic bacteria — the kind that thrive without oxygen — move in and start fermenting the wood tissue from the inside. That fermentation process does two things. First, it draws in and traps enormous amounts of water inside the wood, way beyond what healthy wood would ever hold. Second, it produces gas as a byproduct — methane, carbon dioxide, hydrogen sulfide — and that gas has nowhere to go. It's sealed inside solid wood, inside bark, inside a living, growing tree. So you end up with a chamber, sometimes several feet long, sitting inside the trunk, completely pressurized, completely hidden, holding a mixture of bacteria-laden water and trapped gas — sometimes under enough pressure that when the seal finally breaks, it doesn't drip. It sprays. It gushes. It pours out like the tree itself is bleeding. Now imagine you're an arborist. You've cut down thousands of trees. You know the drill: bark, sapwood, heartwood, done. And then one day your saw breaks through into a hidden pocket you had no way of detecting from the outside, and suddenly you're standing in a puddle that came from inside a tree trunk. That moment is what you're about to see. — Let me give you some numbers, because the scale of this is what makes people stop scrolling. Documented cases of wetwood trees have released water measured in the dozens of gallons from a single cut. Some large elms and cottonwoods have been recorded discharging water continuously for hours after being wounded, with foresters describing "streams" running from the trunk down to the base of the tree and pooling on the ground like a slow leak from a cracked pipe. Certain species are repeat offenders. Elm. Poplar. Cottonwood. Mulberry. Certain oaks. These trees, especially older ones with some history of trunk injury (a old pruning wound, storm damage, a lightning strike, construction damage to the roots), are far more likely to develop internal wetwood pockets, because any breach in the bark is an open door for the bacteria that start this whole process. That's the part that should sit with you for a second. It usually starts with something small. A branch snapped off in a storm. A lawnmower nick at the base. A woodpecker hole. Something that looks like nothing. And over years — sometimes decades — that tiny wound becomes the entry point for a slow-motion transformation happening entirely out of sight, turning part of the tree's interior into a sealed reservoir. You could have one in your own yard right now. You'd have no way of knowing. That's not a scare tactic, that's just how wetwood works — it's invisible from the outside until the tree is cut, cored, drilled, or storm-damaged enough to expose the pocket. — There's an older, uglier cousin of wetwood, and it's called "slime flux," and I promise you the name undersells it. When the pressure inside a wetwood pocket gets high enough, it doesn't wait for someone with a chainsaw. It finds its own way out — through cracks in the bark, through old wounds, through the base of branches. And when that fluid meets open air, the bacteria and yeast in it start reacting with oxygen, and the whole thing turns into a foul, fermenting slurry running down the bark. Old-time foresters called this "flux disease," and some described the smell as somewhere between rotten cabbage and spoiled beer. Insects love it. Certain flies and beetles are specifically drawn to fluxing trees, and some entomologists have documented entire miniature ecosystems living in the wet, fermented bark of a heavily infected wetwood tree. So the version you're about to watch — a clean cut suddenly releasing a rush of water — is actually the tamer version of this phenomenon. It's what happens when the pressure is released fast and deliberately, in a controlled way, instead of slowly seeping and fermenting on the bark for months. It's dramatic, but it's not even the strangest form this condition takes. — Here's where it gets almost unbelievable if you didn't grow up around old-growth forests or work in forestry: this isn't new, and it isn't rare enough to be dismissed as a one-off. Loggers in the 19th and early 20th centuries wrote about "water trees" and "spring trees" — trunks that, when felled or split, would release surprising volumes of water, sometimes described as clean and cold enough that thirsty travelers would drink straight from a freshly cut trunk. Some of these accounts read almost like myth: a felled tree in a dry stretch of forest becoming an impromptu water source for a work crew that had run out of canteens. Indigenous and folk traditions across multiple continents have stories about trees that "cry" or "bleed" water, long before anyone had a bacteriological explanation for it. In parts of the American South, old-timers used to warn newcomers about certain elms and cottonwoods being "wet-hearted," a term passed down generation to generation with no formal science behind it — just observation. They knew, decades before plant pathologists gave it a Latin name, that some trees were different on the inside. There's something almost humbling about that. A phenomenon that sounds like it belongs in a fantasy novel — a tree holding a hidden reservoir inside its trunk — turns out to be something people quietly knew about for centuries, passed down as folk wisdom, and modern science eventually caught up and explained the mechanism. — Let's talk about pressure, because this is the part that turns a "huh, neat" fact into something genuinely dramatic to witness. Wetwood pockets aren't just wet. They're pressurized. Researchers who have studied this by drilling into infected trees and measuring the internal gas pressure have recorded readings significantly above normal atmospheric pressure — high enough that when a probe finally punctures the pocket, gas and liquid don't just seep out, they can audibly hiss, spray, or in some documented cases, forcefully eject material several feet from the trunk. Think about what that means physically. You have a living tree. Roots pulling water up. Leaves doing their thing. Bark looking completely normal, maybe a little bit of old staining near a wound if you know exactly what to look for. And inside, invisible to anyone walking by, there's a sealed chamber behaving less like "wood" and more like a bottle of soda that's been shaken and capped for years. Cut into that with the wrong angle, at the wrong depth, and you are opening something that has been building pressure since before some of you reading this were born. That is not an exaggeration. Some of these wetwood pockets, in old trees with a long history of minor trunk injuries, have been forming and sealing and re-sealing for twenty, thirty, forty years before anyone finally exposes them. — I want to address the skeptics directly, because there's always a version of this that goes semi-viral and the replies fill up with "CGI," "staged," "fake," before anyone bothers to check. This is genuinely, boringly, documented science. Forestry extension offices at multiple universities have publications specifically on wetwood and slime flux — the kind of dry, unglamorous PDF nobody reads unless they're an arborist student cramming for an exam. Plant pathology courses cover it. It's in the same category as things like "trees can produce enough root pressure to push water dozens of feet upward with no pump" — real, measurable, and honestly stranger than most fiction, which is exactly why it keeps going viral every time footage surfaces. The wild part isn't that it's fake. The wild part is that it's real, it's been known for over a century, and most people are hearing about it for the first time through a random video instead of a biology class. — Here's a question worth sitting with: how many trees around you, right now, could be holding something like this? You're not going to know by looking. That's the unsettling part. Wetwood doesn't announce itself from the outside in any reliable way most people would recognize. Sometimes there's a dark wet-looking stain running down the bark from an old wound — that's actually one of the only visible clues, and most people who see it assume it's just water damage or normal bark discoloration, not a sign of a pressurized internal reservoir. Arborists who specialize in tree risk assessment actually have to factor this into their evaluations, because a wetwood pocket can also be a structural weak point — the internal decay associated with it can compromise a tree's strength in ways that aren't visible from a standard visual inspection. So this isn't purely a "huh, cool fact" situation. For professionals, it's something they're trained to watch for, because it changes how a tree behaves, how it should be pruned, and in some cases whether it's even safe to keep standing near a structure. — Let's go species by species for a second, because the "which trees do this" question comes up every single time this kind of footage circulates. Elms are probably the most famous offenders — American elm and Siberian elm both show up repeatedly in wetwood and slime flux case studies. Cottonwoods and poplars are right behind them, especially older specimens with a history of storm damage or pruning wounds. Mulberry trees have a documented tendency toward it as well. Certain oaks can develop it, though it's less common and usually tied to a specific injury history. Willows, with their notoriously soft and moisture-loving wood, are also frequent candidates. What connects almost all of these species isn't some exotic trait — it's actually pretty mundane. They tend to be fast-growing, softer-wooded trees that are more prone to storm damage, cracking, and wound formation over their lifespan, which means more entry points for the bacteria that kick off the entire process. Slower-growing, denser hardwoods are comparatively less prone, though not immune. So if you've got an old elm, cottonwood, poplar, willow, or mulberry anywhere near you — especially one that's taken some damage over the decades, a lost limb, a lightning strike, an old chainsaw wound from a previous trim — there's a real, non-zero chance that tree is sitting on its own hidden reservoir right now, quietly pressurizing, waiting for the day someone finally cuts into the wrong spot. — There's a specific kind of moment that happens on video like this, and if you've watched enough tree-work content you already know it: the split second between the cut going in and the reaction on the face of whoever's holding the saw. That reaction is real. You cannot fake genuine, immediate confusion. Professionals who have done this job for years, who have felled hundreds or thousands of trees, who think they've seen every possible thing a tree trunk can do — and then something happens that their entire career didn't prepare them for. That's the part that makes this kind of footage so different from staged "reaction" content you see everywhere else online. Nobody scripts confusion that specific. Nobody fakes the half-second delay where someone's brain is visibly trying to process what their eyes are showing them. — I'll leave you with this. Every single day, all over the world, people are cutting down trees for completely mundane reasons — storm cleanup, construction, disease removal, firewood, somebody's yard finally getting redone. Thousands of trees. Every day. Most of the time it's exactly as boring as it sounds: cut, drop, haul, done. And then every so often, completely without warning, one of those ordinary trees turns out to be something else entirely. A tree that's been quietly filling itself with water for years, maybe decades, completely undetectable from the outside, sealed shut under bark that looks exactly like every other tree on the block. Nobody plans for that. Nobody sees it coming. That's exactly what makes it worth watching when it happens to be caught on camera. You already scrolled past the video once. Go back and actually watch what happens the second that bar breaks through. You will not believe how much comes out. And once you know why, you'll start looking at every old tree in your neighborhood a little differently. — Let's talk about the pressure numbers again, because I glossed over just how absurd they get in the most extreme documented cases. Standard atmospheric pressure at sea level is about 14.7 pounds per square inch. Some measured wetwood pockets have registered internal gas pressures multiple times higher than that — enough that when researchers insert a hollow probe to sample the gas, it doesn't calmly bubble out, it forces its way through with an audible hiss, sometimes strong enough to make a sound loud enough to hear from several feet away. Now picture that same pressure, except instead of a thin research probe, it's a chainsaw bar plowing straight through the wall of the pocket in one continuous motion. There's no controlled release valve. There's no slow bleed-off. The seal just fails all at once, and whatever's inside — water, gas, fermented bacterial slurry — takes the fastest path out, which is usually straight toward whoever is standing closest. That's not drama for the sake of drama. That's just fluid dynamics doing what fluid dynamics does when a pressurized container gets breached in one violent motion instead of a slow leak. — People love comparing this to other "trees doing things they shouldn't" phenomena, so let's run through a few, because it puts wetwood in context. Root pressure is a real, separately documented thing — some trees, particularly certain maples and grapevines, can generate enough internal pressure through osmosis alone to push water dozens of feet upward through their trunk with zero mechanical pump involved, which is part of why maple syrup tapping works in early spring: cut a hole, and sap doesn't just sit there, it actively flows out under real pressure. Bamboo, meanwhile, has hollow internal chambers between each node that can fill with water and, when punctured, release a surprising rush for something that looks like solid stalk from the outside. Certain cacti and succulents store such enormous internal water reserves that a single barrel cactus can hold multiple gallons, enough that desert survival guides have long described (with real caveats about bitterness and toxicity in some species) cutting into one as an emergency water source. None of those are the exact same mechanism as bacterial wetwood. But they all share the same core surprise: the outside of a plant tells you almost nothing about what's happening on the inside. Trees and plants in general are far better at hiding internal reservoirs, chambers, and pressure systems than most people ever consider, because we're trained from childhood to think of "wood" as uniformly solid and dry. — Here's a question I want you to actually think about instead of just scrolling past: why does this footage hit people so hard emotionally, when it's "just" water? I think it's because it breaks a category we didn't know we had. Somewhere in your brain, without ever being taught it explicitly, you built a rule: solid things don't have hidden liquid interiors. Rocks are solid. Wood is solid. A tree trunk, no matter how big, is filed under "solid object" right next to a brick or a fence post. So when a tree trunk suddenly behaves like a punctured water balloon, it's not just surprising — it's a small, harmless violation of a rule you didn't know you were relying on. That's the exact same psychological mechanism behind why people can't look away from videos of hidden compartments, false walls, geodes cracked open to reveal crystal interiors, or ice cores pulled from glaciers showing air bubbles thousands of years old. The object looked like one thing on the outside and turned out to be something completely different on the inside. Our brains are wired to lock onto that specific kind of surprise and replay it. — I want to walk through what's actually happening at a microscopic level too, because the bacteria part is honestly the wildest piece of this whole story and it usually gets skipped over. The bacteria responsible for wetwood are largely anaerobic — meaning they thrive specifically in environments with no oxygen, which describes the sealed interior of a heartwood pocket perfectly. Species commonly implicated include various strains that also show up in other low-oxygen fermentation processes elsewhere in nature. These bacteria essentially treat the interior of the tree the way yeast treats a sealed fermentation vessel: they break down wood sugars and cellulose components, and as a byproduct of that metabolic process, they release gas. Methane. Carbon dioxide. Sometimes hydrogen sulfide, which is the compound responsible for the "rotten egg" smell associated with some of the worst slime flux cases. Here's the part that should genuinely unsettle you a little: this process can continue, essentially undisturbed, for years. The bacteria don't need light. They don't need a food source refill from outside — the wood itself is the food source. They don't need anything from us at all. They just sit there, fermenting slowly, generation after generation, quietly filling an internal chamber with liquid and gas, completely indifferent to whatever's happening in the world outside the bark. Somebody could mow the lawn around that tree every single week for fifteen years and never once suspect that a private, self-sustaining microbial ecosystem is operating a few inches away, sealed inside solid wood. — Foresters have their own folklore around this too, separate from the old "wet-hearted tree" naming I mentioned earlier, and some of it is genuinely unsettling if you sit with it. There are accounts — some documented in forestry incident reports, some passed around as workplace stories among tree crews — of wetwood pockets releasing enough pressurized gas and liquid on impact to knock a chainsaw sideways out of the operator's hands, or to spray fluid several feet, catching a nearby coworker completely off guard. Tree removal is already one of the more dangerous manual trades that exists — statistically it's consistently ranked among the more hazardous occupations — and wetwood is one of those factors that experienced crews specifically train new hires to be aware of, precisely because it's invisible until the exact moment it isn't. Some crews have a rule: if you see that telltale dark wet staining running down bark from an old wound, you treat the cut differently. Different angle. Different bracing. A moment of hesitation most people watching a video would never think to expect from someone who cuts trees for a living every single day. That hesitation, when you see it, is not caution for no reason. It's caution earned from someone else's story about the day their trunk sprayed back. — Let's zoom out for a second and talk about why nature keeps doing this to us — hiding things in plain sight that overturn assumptions we didn't even know we were making. Geodes look like plain gray rocks from the outside and crack open into crystal cathedrals. Certain seemingly solid ice formations conceal air pockets and liquid water inside glacial ice that's been sealed for centuries. Some seeds remain dormant and viable inside dry-looking husks for years, sometimes decades, before conditions trigger germination. Nature is, on some fundamental level, extremely good at packaging surprising internal states inside boring, unremarkable exteriors, because there's rarely an evolutionary or physical reason for the outside of something to accurately advertise what's happening on the inside. A tree trunk covered in bark has absolutely no obligation to tell you what's going on underneath. And most of the time, honestly, there's nothing dramatic going on under there — it really is just solid wood, rings, sapwood doing its normal job. But every so often, under the right combination of an old wound, the right bacteria finding their way in, and years of undisturbed fermentation, you get this. A tree that's secretly been operating as a sealed, pressurized reservoir the entire time, waiting for someone with a saw to finally find out. — A few quick things people always ask once they learn about this, so let's knock them out here. Is the water safe to drink? Historically, some accounts describe it as drinkable in a pinch, but modern guidance is far more cautious — wetwood fluid is loaded with bacteria and fermentation byproducts, and depending on the tree and how advanced the infection is, it can range from relatively clean-tasting to genuinely foul and bacterially loaded. Not something to treat as a reliable water source by modern standards, whatever old logging stories might say. Does it kill the tree? Not necessarily, and that's part of what makes it so strange. Trees can live with wetwood for years, even decades, functioning normally from the outside — leafing out every spring, growing new rings — while quietly carrying an internal pocket the entire time. It's more of a chronic condition than an acute one in most cases, though severe cases can weaken the tree structurally and contribute to internal decay. Can you tell from the outside before cutting? Sometimes, if you know exactly what to look for — that dark staining running from an old wound is the main visible tell. But plenty of wetwood trees show no obvious external sign at all until the moment someone cuts into the wrong spot. — If you made it this far, you now know something about trees that the overwhelming majority of people who scroll past videos like this never bother to learn. You know the name of the phenomenon. You know the bacterial mechanism behind it. You know which species are most prone to it, why old wounds matter, how much pressure can actually build up inside, and why experienced tree crews still treat certain trunks with real caution. That's a strange amount of knowledge to walk away with from what looks, at first glance, like just another oddly satisfying clip. But that's usually how it goes with the genuinely wild stuff nature does — it looks small on the surface, and then you pull one thread and end up somewhere you didn't expect. Go watch it again with all of that in your head this time. Watch the exact frame where the bar breaks through. Watch what the water does the instant it has somewhere to go. Watch the reaction on the person holding the saw — that's not performance, that's genuine surprise from someone who has almost certainly done this exact job a thousand times before and never seen a tree do this. Some trees really are just wood, top to bottom, nothing hiding inside. And then there are the ones that have been quietly running their own private reservoir for twenty or thirty years, sealed under ordinary-looking bark, waiting for exactly one cut to finally let it out. You just watched what that looks like the moment it happens.

A tree stood in that backyard for probably 40 years. Nobody who walked past it, sat under it, leaned a bike against it, ever knew what was living inside the trunk. Then someone cut into it. And what came out shouldn't be possible. Not sap. Not resin. Water. Gallons of it. Pouring out of solid wood like someone left a hose running inside a living organism. If your first reaction is "that's fake" — I understand. I had the same reaction the first time I saw footage like this. Trees are supposed to be dry on the inside. Bark, wood, rings, maybe some sticky sap if you're unlucky enough to touch a pine. Nobody grows up learning that a tree can be a pressurized tank. But here's the thing nobody tells you in school: some trees are. There's a real, documented, scientifically studied phenomenon behind this, and once you understand it, you will never look at a tree the same way again. I'm going to walk you through exactly what's happening inside these trees, why it happens, which species are famous for it, the wild historical accounts of people discovering it by accident (sometimes violently), and why arborists still get caught off guard by it after decades on the job. Stick with me. This gets stranger the deeper you go. — FIRST: the phenomenon has a name. Arborists and plant pathologists call it "wetwood," and in its more advanced, foul-smelling form, "slime flux." It's not folklore. It's not an urban legend some guy made up on a forum. It's in forestry textbooks, USDA plant pathology bulletins, and arborist training manuals. Here's the mechanism, stripped down to plain English: Trees have a core of heartwood — the dead, structural center of the trunk that no longer transports nutrients. It's basically the tree's skeleton. In most trees, that heartwood is just dry, solid wood. But in certain species, under certain conditions, bacteria colonize that heartwood core. Anaerobic bacteria — the kind that thrive without oxygen — move in and start fermenting the wood tissue from the inside. That fermentation process does two things. First, it draws in and traps enormous amounts of water inside the wood, way beyond what healthy wood would ever hold. Second, it produces gas as a byproduct — methane, carbon dioxide, hydrogen sulfide — and that gas has nowhere to go. It's sealed inside solid wood, inside bark, inside a living, growing tree. So you end up with a chamber, sometimes several feet long, sitting inside the trunk, completely pressurized, completely hidden, holding a mixture of bacteria-laden water and trapped gas — sometimes under enough pressure that when the seal finally breaks, it doesn't drip. It sprays. It gushes. It pours out like the tree itself is bleeding. Now imagine you're an arborist. You've cut down thousands of trees. You know the drill: bark, sapwood, heartwood, done. And then one day your saw breaks through into a hidden pocket you had no way of detecting from the outside, and suddenly you're standing in a puddle that came from inside a tree trunk. That moment is what you're about to see. — Let me give you some numbers, because the scale of this is what makes people stop scrolling. Documented cases of wetwood trees have released water measured in the dozens of gallons from a single cut. Some large elms and cottonwoods have been recorded discharging water continuously for hours after being wounded, with foresters describing "streams" running from the trunk down to the base of the tree and pooling on the ground like a slow leak from a cracked pipe. Certain species are repeat offenders. Elm. Poplar. Cottonwood. Mulberry. Certain oaks. These trees, especially older ones with some history of trunk injury (a old pruning wound, storm damage, a lightning strike, construction damage to the roots), are far more likely to develop internal wetwood pockets, because any breach in the bark is an open door for the bacteria that start this whole process. That's the part that should sit with you for a second. It usually starts with something small. A branch snapped off in a storm. A lawnmower nick at the base. A woodpecker hole. Something that looks like nothing. And over years — sometimes decades — that tiny wound becomes the entry point for a slow-motion transformation happening entirely out of sight, turning part of the tree's interior into a sealed reservoir. You could have one in your own yard right now. You'd have no way of knowing. That's not a scare tactic, that's just how wetwood works — it's invisible from the outside until the tree is cut, cored, drilled, or storm-damaged enough to expose the pocket. — There's an older, uglier cousin of wetwood, and it's called "slime flux," and I promise you the name undersells it. When the pressure inside a wetwood pocket gets high enough, it doesn't wait for someone with a chainsaw. It finds its own way out — through cracks in the bark, through old wounds, through the base of branches. And when that fluid meets open air, the bacteria and yeast in it start reacting with oxygen, and the whole thing turns into a foul, fermenting slurry running down the bark. Old-time foresters called this "flux disease," and some described the smell as somewhere between rotten cabbage and spoiled beer. Insects love it. Certain flies and beetles are specifically drawn to fluxing trees, and some entomologists have documented entire miniature ecosystems living in the wet, fermented bark of a heavily infected wetwood tree. So the version you're about to watch — a clean cut suddenly releasing a rush of water — is actually the tamer version of this phenomenon. It's what happens when the pressure is released fast and deliberately, in a controlled way, instead of slowly seeping and fermenting on the bark for months. It's dramatic, but it's not even the strangest form this condition takes. — Here's where it gets almost unbelievable if you didn't grow up around old-growth forests or work in forestry: this isn't new, and it isn't rare enough to be dismissed as a one-off. Loggers in the 19th and early 20th centuries wrote about "water trees" and "spring trees" — trunks that, when felled or split, would release surprising volumes of water, sometimes described as clean and cold enough that thirsty travelers would drink straight from a freshly cut trunk. Some of these accounts read almost like myth: a felled tree in a dry stretch of forest becoming an impromptu water source for a work crew that had run out of canteens. Indigenous and folk traditions across multiple continents have stories about trees that "cry" or "bleed" water, long before anyone had a bacteriological explanation for it. In parts of the American South, old-timers used to warn newcomers about certain elms and cottonwoods being "wet-hearted," a term passed down generation to generation with no formal science behind it — just observation. They knew, decades before plant pathologists gave it a Latin name, that some trees were different on the inside. There's something almost humbling about that. A phenomenon that sounds like it belongs in a fantasy novel — a tree holding a hidden reservoir inside its trunk — turns out to be something people quietly knew about for centuries, passed down as folk wisdom, and modern science eventually caught up and explained the mechanism. — Let's talk about pressure, because this is the part that turns a "huh, neat" fact into something genuinely dramatic to witness. Wetwood pockets aren't just wet. They're pressurized. Researchers who have studied this by drilling into infected trees and measuring the internal gas pressure have recorded readings significantly above normal atmospheric pressure — high enough that when a probe finally punctures the pocket, gas and liquid don't just seep out, they can audibly hiss, spray, or in some documented cases, forcefully eject material several feet from the trunk. Think about what that means physically. You have a living tree. Roots pulling water up. Leaves doing their thing. Bark looking completely normal, maybe a little bit of old staining near a wound if you know exactly what to look for. And inside, invisible to anyone walking by, there's a sealed chamber behaving less like "wood" and more like a bottle of soda that's been shaken and capped for years. Cut into that with the wrong angle, at the wrong depth, and you are opening something that has been building pressure since before some of you reading this were born. That is not an exaggeration. Some of these wetwood pockets, in old trees with a long history of minor trunk injuries, have been forming and sealing and re-sealing for twenty, thirty, forty years before anyone finally exposes them. — I want to address the skeptics directly, because there's always a version of this that goes semi-viral and the replies fill up with "CGI," "staged," "fake," before anyone bothers to check. This is genuinely, boringly, documented science. Forestry extension offices at multiple universities have publications specifically on wetwood and slime flux — the kind of dry, unglamorous PDF nobody reads unless they're an arborist student cramming for an exam. Plant pathology courses cover it. It's in the same category as things like "trees can produce enough root pressure to push water dozens of feet upward with no pump" — real, measurable, and honestly stranger than most fiction, which is exactly why it keeps going viral every time footage surfaces. The wild part isn't that it's fake. The wild part is that it's real, it's been known for over a century, and most people are hearing about it for the first time through a random video instead of a biology class. — Here's a question worth sitting with: how many trees around you, right now, could be holding something like this? You're not going to know by looking. That's the unsettling part. Wetwood doesn't announce itself from the outside in any reliable way most people would recognize. Sometimes there's a dark wet-looking stain running down the bark from an old wound — that's actually one of the only visible clues, and most people who see it assume it's just water damage or normal bark discoloration, not a sign of a pressurized internal reservoir. Arborists who specialize in tree risk assessment actually have to factor this into their evaluations, because a wetwood pocket can also be a structural weak point — the internal decay associated with it can compromise a tree's strength in ways that aren't visible from a standard visual inspection. So this isn't purely a "huh, cool fact" situation. For professionals, it's something they're trained to watch for, because it changes how a tree behaves, how it should be pruned, and in some cases whether it's even safe to keep standing near a structure. — Let's go species by species for a second, because the "which trees do this" question comes up every single time this kind of footage circulates. Elms are probably the most famous offenders — American elm and Siberian elm both show up repeatedly in wetwood and slime flux case studies. Cottonwoods and poplars are right behind them, especially older specimens with a history of storm damage or pruning wounds. Mulberry trees have a documented tendency toward it as well. Certain oaks can develop it, though it's less common and usually tied to a specific injury history. Willows, with their notoriously soft and moisture-loving wood, are also frequent candidates. What connects almost all of these species isn't some exotic trait — it's actually pretty mundane. They tend to be fast-growing, softer-wooded trees that are more prone to storm damage, cracking, and wound formation over their lifespan, which means more entry points for the bacteria that kick off the entire process. Slower-growing, denser hardwoods are comparatively less prone, though not immune. So if you've got an old elm, cottonwood, poplar, willow, or mulberry anywhere near you — especially one that's taken some damage over the decades, a lost limb, a lightning strike, an old chainsaw wound from a previous trim — there's a real, non-zero chance that tree is sitting on its own hidden reservoir right now, quietly pressurizing, waiting for the day someone finally cuts into the wrong spot. — There's a specific kind of moment that happens on video like this, and if you've watched enough tree-work content you already know it: the split second between the cut going in and the reaction on the face of whoever's holding the saw. That reaction is real. You cannot fake genuine, immediate confusion. Professionals who have done this job for years, who have felled hundreds or thousands of trees, who think they've seen every possible thing a tree trunk can do — and then something happens that their entire career didn't prepare them for. That's the part that makes this kind of footage so different from staged "reaction" content you see everywhere else online. Nobody scripts confusion that specific. Nobody fakes the half-second delay where someone's brain is visibly trying to process what their eyes are showing them. — I'll leave you with this. Every single day, all over the world, people are cutting down trees for completely mundane reasons — storm cleanup, construction, disease removal, firewood, somebody's yard finally getting redone. Thousands of trees. Every day. Most of the time it's exactly as boring as it sounds: cut, drop, haul, done. And then every so often, completely without warning, one of those ordinary trees turns out to be something else entirely. A tree that's been quietly filling itself with water for years, maybe decades, completely undetectable from the outside, sealed shut under bark that looks exactly like every other tree on the block. Nobody plans for that. Nobody sees it coming. That's exactly what makes it worth watching when it happens to be caught on camera. You already scrolled past the video once. Go back and actually watch what happens the second that bar breaks through. You will not believe how much comes out. And once you know why, you'll start looking at every old tree in your neighborhood a little differently. — Let's talk about the pressure numbers again, because I glossed over just how absurd they get in the most extreme documented cases. Standard atmospheric pressure at sea level is about 14.7 pounds per square inch. Some measured wetwood pockets have registered internal gas pressures multiple times higher than that — enough that when researchers insert a hollow probe to sample the gas, it doesn't calmly bubble out, it forces its way through with an audible hiss, sometimes strong enough to make a sound loud enough to hear from several feet away. Now picture that same pressure, except instead of a thin research probe, it's a chainsaw bar plowing straight through the wall of the pocket in one continuous motion. There's no controlled release valve. There's no slow bleed-off. The seal just fails all at once, and whatever's inside — water, gas, fermented bacterial slurry — takes the fastest path out, which is usually straight toward whoever is standing closest. That's not drama for the sake of drama. That's just fluid dynamics doing what fluid dynamics does when a pressurized container gets breached in one violent motion instead of a slow leak. — People love comparing this to other "trees doing things they shouldn't" phenomena, so let's run through a few, because it puts wetwood in context. Root pressure is a real, separately documented thing — some trees, particularly certain maples and grapevines, can generate enough internal pressure through osmosis alone to push water dozens of feet upward through their trunk with zero mechanical pump involved, which is part of why maple syrup tapping works in early spring: cut a hole, and sap doesn't just sit there, it actively flows out under real pressure. Bamboo, meanwhile, has hollow internal chambers between each node that can fill with water and, when punctured, release a surprising rush for something that looks like solid stalk from the outside. Certain cacti and succulents store such enormous internal water reserves that a single barrel cactus can hold multiple gallons, enough that desert survival guides have long described (with real caveats about bitterness and toxicity in some species) cutting into one as an emergency water source. None of those are the exact same mechanism as bacterial wetwood. But they all share the same core surprise: the outside of a plant tells you almost nothing about what's happening on the inside. Trees and plants in general are far better at hiding internal reservoirs, chambers, and pressure systems than most people ever consider, because we're trained from childhood to think of "wood" as uniformly solid and dry. — Here's a question I want you to actually think about instead of just scrolling past: why does this footage hit people so hard emotionally, when it's "just" water? I think it's because it breaks a category we didn't know we had. Somewhere in your brain, without ever being taught it explicitly, you built a rule: solid things don't have hidden liquid interiors. Rocks are solid. Wood is solid. A tree trunk, no matter how big, is filed under "solid object" right next to a brick or a fence post. So when a tree trunk suddenly behaves like a punctured water balloon, it's not just surprising — it's a small, harmless violation of a rule you didn't know you were relying on. That's the exact same psychological mechanism behind why people can't look away from videos of hidden compartments, false walls, geodes cracked open to reveal crystal interiors, or ice cores pulled from glaciers showing air bubbles thousands of years old. The object looked like one thing on the outside and turned out to be something completely different on the inside. Our brains are wired to lock onto that specific kind of surprise and replay it. — I want to walk through what's actually happening at a microscopic level too, because the bacteria part is honestly the wildest piece of this whole story and it usually gets skipped over. The bacteria responsible for wetwood are largely anaerobic — meaning they thrive specifically in environments with no oxygen, which describes the sealed interior of a heartwood pocket perfectly. Species commonly implicated include various strains that also show up in other low-oxygen fermentation processes elsewhere in nature. These bacteria essentially treat the interior of the tree the way yeast treats a sealed fermentation vessel: they break down wood sugars and cellulose components, and as a byproduct of that metabolic process, they release gas. Methane. Carbon dioxide. Sometimes hydrogen sulfide, which is the compound responsible for the "rotten egg" smell associated with some of the worst slime flux cases. Here's the part that should genuinely unsettle you a little: this process can continue, essentially undisturbed, for years. The bacteria don't need light. They don't need a food source refill from outside — the wood itself is the food source. They don't need anything from us at all. They just sit there, fermenting slowly, generation after generation, quietly filling an internal chamber with liquid and gas, completely indifferent to whatever's happening in the world outside the bark. Somebody could mow the lawn around that tree every single week for fifteen years and never once suspect that a private, self-sustaining microbial ecosystem is operating a few inches away, sealed inside solid wood. — Foresters have their own folklore around this too, separate from the old "wet-hearted tree" naming I mentioned earlier, and some of it is genuinely unsettling if you sit with it. There are accounts — some documented in forestry incident reports, some passed around as workplace stories among tree crews — of wetwood pockets releasing enough pressurized gas and liquid on impact to knock a chainsaw sideways out of the operator's hands, or to spray fluid several feet, catching a nearby coworker completely off guard. Tree removal is already one of the more dangerous manual trades that exists — statistically it's consistently ranked among the more hazardous occupations — and wetwood is one of those factors that experienced crews specifically train new hires to be aware of, precisely because it's invisible until the exact moment it isn't. Some crews have a rule: if you see that telltale dark wet staining running down bark from an old wound, you treat the cut differently. Different angle. Different bracing. A moment of hesitation most people watching a video would never think to expect from someone who cuts trees for a living every single day. That hesitation, when you see it, is not caution for no reason. It's caution earned from someone else's story about the day their trunk sprayed back. — Let's zoom out for a second and talk about why nature keeps doing this to us — hiding things in plain sight that overturn assumptions we didn't even know we were making. Geodes look like plain gray rocks from the outside and crack open into crystal cathedrals. Certain seemingly solid ice formations conceal air pockets and liquid water inside glacial ice that's been sealed for centuries. Some seeds remain dormant and viable inside dry-looking husks for years, sometimes decades, before conditions trigger germination. Nature is, on some fundamental level, extremely good at packaging surprising internal states inside boring, unremarkable exteriors, because there's rarely an evolutionary or physical reason for the outside of something to accurately advertise what's happening on the inside. A tree trunk covered in bark has absolutely no obligation to tell you what's going on underneath. And most of the time, honestly, there's nothing dramatic going on under there — it really is just solid wood, rings, sapwood doing its normal job. But every so often, under the right combination of an old wound, the right bacteria finding their way in, and years of undisturbed fermentation, you get this. A tree that's secretly been operating as a sealed, pressurized reservoir the entire time, waiting for someone with a saw to finally find out. — A few quick things people always ask once they learn about this, so let's knock them out here. Is the water safe to drink? Historically, some accounts describe it as drinkable in a pinch, but modern guidance is far more cautious — wetwood fluid is loaded with bacteria and fermentation byproducts, and depending on the tree and how advanced the infection is, it can range from relatively clean-tasting to genuinely foul and bacterially loaded. Not something to treat as a reliable water source by modern standards, whatever old logging stories might say. Does it kill the tree? Not necessarily, and that's part of what makes it so strange. Trees can live with wetwood for years, even decades, functioning normally from the outside — leafing out every spring, growing new rings — while quietly carrying an internal pocket the entire time. It's more of a chronic condition than an acute one in most cases, though severe cases can weaken the tree structurally and contribute to internal decay. Can you tell from the outside before cutting? Sometimes, if you know exactly what to look for — that dark staining running from an old wound is the main visible tell. But plenty of wetwood trees show no obvious external sign at all until the moment someone cuts into the wrong spot. — If you made it this far, you now know something about trees that the overwhelming majority of people who scroll past videos like this never bother to learn. You know the name of the phenomenon. You know the bacterial mechanism behind it. You know which species are most prone to it, why old wounds matter, how much pressure can actually build up inside, and why experienced tree crews still treat certain trunks with real caution. That's a strange amount of knowledge to walk away with from what looks, at first glance, like just another oddly satisfying clip. But that's usually how it goes with the genuinely wild stuff nature does — it looks small on the surface, and then you pull one thread and end up somewhere you didn't expect. Go watch it again with all of that in your head this time. Watch the exact frame where the bar breaks through. Watch what the water does the instant it has somewhere to go. Watch the reaction on the person holding the saw — that's not performance, that's genuine surprise from someone who has almost certainly done this exact job a thousand times before and never seen a tree do this. Some trees really are just wood, top to bottom, nothing hiding inside. And then there are the ones that have been quietly running their own private reservoir for twenty or thirty years, sealed under ordinary-looking bark, waiting for exactly one cut to finally let it out. You just watched what that looks like the moment it happens.

Earth Unveiled

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𝗤 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮 𝗳𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿 𝘀𝗲𝘁𝘂𝗽 ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ So everyone except one person was asleep. At what time, well about the same time it broke out intraday. It’s the most textbook breakout I’ve seen in a while. The right sector, big volume, and just a perfect flag pattern intraday. I got stopped out the first time around, I took a $13,000 loss on it on this weird red candle. So I had a 5.20 average. I had about half size and then it just shook me out and I got stopped out low 5s. And then I started building back, 5.20 and 5.32, I think, were my entries. My only regret is I didn’t buy 200,000 shares instead of 100,000 shares and then it went just straight up. It is the most textbook flag ever. Higher lows intraday at the range. It’s a hot sector, the hottest sector we’ve seen in probably year plus. Record volume, ultra liquid. Memorize this, memorize. Trades like that, they don’t grow on trees. Except for the past two weeks they’ve literally been growing on trees, but generally you don’t get them too often. I have to say, I’m a little bit disappointed. Guys, how are you not monitoring these coronavirus stocks? It’s the hottest sector. Only one person saw it. And that person didn't even buy it. Okay guys, I'm going to teach you something. If you have a hot sector like this, you have to monitor, you have to create a watchlist and monitor all of the stocks. Just scroll through them during the day. This is unacceptable guys. I’m a little bit disappointed. I’m super disappointed. Just scroll; I have 40 coronavirus stocks in my watchlist and I just scroll through them, the most liquid ones. I sort them by dollar volume. Most of them are too illiquid for me to trade. But every day, pre-market and during the day, I just scroll through this list. INO is obviously the most liquid one today, GILD—this is a slow moving one, it's not a pump stock. MRNA, APT, CODX, AIM, NVAX. All of these. Just scroll through them, look for setups. Look for news. OMI, they had earnings—oh, good thing I sold it yesterday. Whew! What a piece of shit. ARCT, another one that is getting pumped today. Guys, you have to do these things. You really have to. There's really no excuse. And if you think there's too many, just focus on the most liquid ones. Markets like these are when you can make your whole year in a few weeks. Like a whole year happens in a few weeks. That’s the market environment we are in right now. And you just have to do this over and over and over again.

𝗤 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮 𝗳𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿 𝘀𝗲𝘁𝘂𝗽 ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ So everyone except one person was asleep. At what time, well about the same time it broke out intraday. It’s the most textbook breakout I’ve seen in a while. The right sector, big volume, and just a perfect flag pattern intraday. I got stopped out the first time around, I took a $13,000 loss on it on this weird red candle. So I had a 5.20 average. I had about half size and then it just shook me out and I got stopped out low 5s. And then I started building back, 5.20 and 5.32, I think, were my entries. My only regret is I didn’t buy 200,000 shares instead of 100,000 shares and then it went just straight up. It is the most textbook flag ever. Higher lows intraday at the range. It’s a hot sector, the hottest sector we’ve seen in probably year plus. Record volume, ultra liquid. Memorize this, memorize. Trades like that, they don’t grow on trees. Except for the past two weeks they’ve literally been growing on trees, but generally you don’t get them too often. I have to say, I’m a little bit disappointed. Guys, how are you not monitoring these coronavirus stocks? It’s the hottest sector. Only one person saw it. And that person didn't even buy it. Okay guys, I'm going to teach you something. If you have a hot sector like this, you have to monitor, you have to create a watchlist and monitor all of the stocks. Just scroll through them during the day. This is unacceptable guys. I’m a little bit disappointed. I’m super disappointed. Just scroll; I have 40 coronavirus stocks in my watchlist and I just scroll through them, the most liquid ones. I sort them by dollar volume. Most of them are too illiquid for me to trade. But every day, pre-market and during the day, I just scroll through this list. INO is obviously the most liquid one today, GILD—this is a slow moving one, it's not a pump stock. MRNA, APT, CODX, AIM, NVAX. All of these. Just scroll through them, look for setups. Look for news. OMI, they had earnings—oh, good thing I sold it yesterday. Whew! What a piece of shit. ARCT, another one that is getting pumped today. Guys, you have to do these things. You really have to. There's really no excuse. And if you think there's too many, just focus on the most liquid ones. Markets like these are when you can make your whole year in a few weeks. Like a whole year happens in a few weeks. That’s the market environment we are in right now. And you just have to do this over and over and over again.

Qullamaggie Wisdom

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👽🐶 "The orb made its way toward a grove of trees...with the dogs barking right behind. Soon the barks turned to yelps of extreme pain, and then there was silence." 🐶👽 Was the Phenomenon Just Playing "Games" When It Killed Three Dogs? (This story has always bothered me.) Knapp: "30 years ago this month, right now, as we're talking, at the ranch, the rancher (Terry Sherman) sees this blue-turquoise orb lead his dogs out across the pasture in Homestead One, and zapped them. And all he ever found of those dogs were these gooey puddles. Another demonstration. I just wonder what is the message from that?" Robert Bigelow: "Terry showed me those, showed me...later. Showed me the remnants of what was left of those dogs." Knapp: "So what's being communicated there? We could do this to you if we wanted to? We could carve up you instead of cattle? Zap you instead of dogs?" Bigelow: "It's not clear to me what was communicated, because it's more of a human-animal reaction. Of...well, I'm gonna get even, Or, I'm going to hurt you. I'm gonna hurt something you care about. Those are more human kind of reactions, because we're a human animal." Knapp: "So we're looking for a meaning as we would interpret it, as opposed to..." Bigelow: "Yeah, I'm looking for a message. As a researcher, I'm looking for information for a message, as, you know, of a demonstration. But... " (But as an animal lover, I wanna know why the phenomenon felt the need to kill three dogs when it, easily, could have flown away from them. That's always been my question.) Bigelow: "That was a teal ball, as I [recall] that they were chasing." Knapp: "Yep." Bigelow; "The message might have been: the dogs were expensable. Expendable, And the message might have been for Terry. And the message is: this needs to be taken really seriously, or we, or me, or it, whatever that ball is, if it's a consciousness. Not just that it can, the locomotion, is that it can dodge branches throughout a forest of trees with perfect precision, at speed. "But it may have a consciousness connected to it, and it may have been the message was for Terry. Not that the animals' lives weren't sacrificed for nothing. So they were sacrificed, maybe, speculating, as a message for Terry." Knapp: "Well, it seems, clearly, whatever that intelligence is can differentiate between cows and dogs and people." Bigelow: "Oh, sure." Knapp: "What it did to cows are things that we do to cattle all the time." Bigelow: "Oh yeah." Knapp: "What it did to those dogs. I mean, it still is different from what it could do to humans and did not." (And it may have known about how humans treat dogs and figured we don't really care about them. According to the ASPCA, in 2025, 320,000 dogs and 277,000 cats were euthanized in the U.S. due to space and resource limitations at shelters. That's horrifying. But, again, why kill them on Skinwalker Ranch and leave everyone to speculate why it was done?) Bigelow: "Well, you have to take it seriously. I mean, they're... So, all of it is very serious, that...whether it can cause human problems, which it has, or kind of innocuous kind of things that are just games, you know? So." ~~~ (Is there another witness who saw what was left of the dogs after they were allegedly eviscerated? Yes, and I've posted this a few times on here... ⬇️⬇️⬇️ ~~~Begin Excerpt from "The Utah UFO Display"~~~ Then there were the orbs. One evening, [Skinwalker Ranch owner, Terry Sherman] and his wife, [Gwen] saw a bright blue orb or sphere, about three times the size of a baseball, drifting among the trees and around their cattle and horses, which remained strangely calm. The orb gave off enough blue light that the cattle were illuminated. It came up close to [the Shermans], about twenty feet away and fifteen feet above the ground, where they could see it clearly. It looked as if it were made of glass, with a swirling blue liquid inside. [Terry's] wife reached for her flashlight, and the orb sped away into the trees, where it maneuvered under apparently intelligent control. Later, they saw it out of their window. During the close encounter, both [Terry] and [Gwen] were so gripped by fear that they later said that the orb must have exercised control over their minds! Yet the orbs became a common sight on the ranch, with many appearances. The final straw involved one of those orbs. One evening the [Shermans] were watching the orange thing in the western sky when, out of the corner of their eye, they saw one of those blue orbs. It again came close, but [Terry] made the mistake of releasing his three barking and well-trained dogs, which were a special pride to him. The dogs chased after the orb, which descended from its ten-foot altitude close enough to earth for the dogs to jump and lunge at it. It seemed to tease them, moving away just as the dogs’ jaws almost made contact. The orb made its way toward a grove of trees, moving into the trees without touching as much as a branch, and with the dogs barking right behind. Soon the barks turned to yelps of extreme pain, and then there was silence. [Terry] was not about to go into those trees after what had happened, but the next morning, after making his way through the thick vegetation, he came upon a clearing. Leaves on the trees were dry or burned. There was a powerfully unpleasant odor, and there were three large circles of brown, dried-out grass. In the center of each circle was a greasy, dark mess - apparently what was left of the dogs! The [Shermans] had a family conference and decided to sell the ranch. This story gains credibility because Junior Hicks visited the ranch, heard the account of what had happened, and saw the circles of dead grass with their piles of “grease” in the center. (His memory is of only two dogs and circles, but to me [Terry] confirmed three dogs.) Furthermore, Charles Winn’s grandson told us about seeing an orb moving close to Winn’s house, as we’ll see in an interview near the end of this chapter. Such orbs are part of the UFO literature from all over the world. Quite recently, I was contacted through email by Richard F. Colagiovanni who had been a student of mine at Utah State University back in my UFO-hunting days. I had forgotten both the student and the story he had told me, but it had bothered him enough that after forty years he wanted to tell me again. In 1964, he was with a companion, Dave DeCrosta, near Cranston, Rhode Island, in a wooded area shooting BB gun pellets made of copper-coated steel. These pellets made sudden, right-angle turns in their two-hundred-foot-per-second trajectories, moving in any direction, apparently in response to a strong magnetic field! There were no power lines or other possible sources of magnetism. Then along came a bright, metallic sphere or orb about the size of a tennis ball, also doing right-angle turns. It had a bright, semi-glowing, silver/platinum appearance. It disappeared into the ground, leaving no mark at its entry point! ~~~End Excerpt from "The Utah UFO Display"~~~

👽🐶 "The orb made its way toward a grove of trees...with the dogs barking right behind. Soon the barks turned to yelps of extreme pain, and then there was silence." 🐶👽 Was the Phenomenon Just Playing "Games" When It Killed Three Dogs? (This story has always bothered me.) Knapp: "30 years ago this month, right now, as we're talking, at the ranch, the rancher (Terry Sherman) sees this blue-turquoise orb lead his dogs out across the pasture in Homestead One, and zapped them. And all he ever found of those dogs were these gooey puddles. Another demonstration. I just wonder what is the message from that?" Robert Bigelow: "Terry showed me those, showed me...later. Showed me the remnants of what was left of those dogs." Knapp: "So what's being communicated there? We could do this to you if we wanted to? We could carve up you instead of cattle? Zap you instead of dogs?" Bigelow: "It's not clear to me what was communicated, because it's more of a human-animal reaction. Of...well, I'm gonna get even, Or, I'm going to hurt you. I'm gonna hurt something you care about. Those are more human kind of reactions, because we're a human animal." Knapp: "So we're looking for a meaning as we would interpret it, as opposed to..." Bigelow: "Yeah, I'm looking for a message. As a researcher, I'm looking for information for a message, as, you know, of a demonstration. But... " (But as an animal lover, I wanna know why the phenomenon felt the need to kill three dogs when it, easily, could have flown away from them. That's always been my question.) Bigelow: "That was a teal ball, as I [recall] that they were chasing." Knapp: "Yep." Bigelow; "The message might have been: the dogs were expensable. Expendable, And the message might have been for Terry. And the message is: this needs to be taken really seriously, or we, or me, or it, whatever that ball is, if it's a consciousness. Not just that it can, the locomotion, is that it can dodge branches throughout a forest of trees with perfect precision, at speed. "But it may have a consciousness connected to it, and it may have been the message was for Terry. Not that the animals' lives weren't sacrificed for nothing. So they were sacrificed, maybe, speculating, as a message for Terry." Knapp: "Well, it seems, clearly, whatever that intelligence is can differentiate between cows and dogs and people." Bigelow: "Oh, sure." Knapp: "What it did to cows are things that we do to cattle all the time." Bigelow: "Oh yeah." Knapp: "What it did to those dogs. I mean, it still is different from what it could do to humans and did not." (And it may have known about how humans treat dogs and figured we don't really care about them. According to the ASPCA, in 2025, 320,000 dogs and 277,000 cats were euthanized in the U.S. due to space and resource limitations at shelters. That's horrifying. But, again, why kill them on Skinwalker Ranch and leave everyone to speculate why it was done?) Bigelow: "Well, you have to take it seriously. I mean, they're... So, all of it is very serious, that...whether it can cause human problems, which it has, or kind of innocuous kind of things that are just games, you know? So." ~ (Is there another witness who saw what was left of the dogs after they were allegedly eviscerated? Yes, and I've posted this a few times on here... ⬇️⬇️⬇️ ~Begin Excerpt from "The Utah UFO Display"~ Then there were the orbs. One evening, [Skinwalker Ranch owner, Terry Sherman] and his wife, [Gwen] saw a bright blue orb or sphere, about three times the size of a baseball, drifting among the trees and around their cattle and horses, which remained strangely calm. The orb gave off enough blue light that the cattle were illuminated. It came up close to [the Shermans], about twenty feet away and fifteen feet above the ground, where they could see it clearly. It looked as if it were made of glass, with a swirling blue liquid inside. [Terry's] wife reached for her flashlight, and the orb sped away into the trees, where it maneuvered under apparently intelligent control. Later, they saw it out of their window. During the close encounter, both [Terry] and [Gwen] were so gripped by fear that they later said that the orb must have exercised control over their minds! Yet the orbs became a common sight on the ranch, with many appearances. The final straw involved one of those orbs. One evening the [Shermans] were watching the orange thing in the western sky when, out of the corner of their eye, they saw one of those blue orbs. It again came close, but [Terry] made the mistake of releasing his three barking and well-trained dogs, which were a special pride to him. The dogs chased after the orb, which descended from its ten-foot altitude close enough to earth for the dogs to jump and lunge at it. It seemed to tease them, moving away just as the dogs’ jaws almost made contact. The orb made its way toward a grove of trees, moving into the trees without touching as much as a branch, and with the dogs barking right behind. Soon the barks turned to yelps of extreme pain, and then there was silence. [Terry] was not about to go into those trees after what had happened, but the next morning, after making his way through the thick vegetation, he came upon a clearing. Leaves on the trees were dry or burned. There was a powerfully unpleasant odor, and there were three large circles of brown, dried-out grass. In the center of each circle was a greasy, dark mess - apparently what was left of the dogs! The [Shermans] had a family conference and decided to sell the ranch. This story gains credibility because Junior Hicks visited the ranch, heard the account of what had happened, and saw the circles of dead grass with their piles of “grease” in the center. (His memory is of only two dogs and circles, but to me [Terry] confirmed three dogs.) Furthermore, Charles Winn’s grandson told us about seeing an orb moving close to Winn’s house, as we’ll see in an interview near the end of this chapter. Such orbs are part of the UFO literature from all over the world. Quite recently, I was contacted through email by Richard F. Colagiovanni who had been a student of mine at Utah State University back in my UFO-hunting days. I had forgotten both the student and the story he had told me, but it had bothered him enough that after forty years he wanted to tell me again. In 1964, he was with a companion, Dave DeCrosta, near Cranston, Rhode Island, in a wooded area shooting BB gun pellets made of copper-coated steel. These pellets made sudden, right-angle turns in their two-hundred-foot-per-second trajectories, moving in any direction, apparently in response to a strong magnetic field! There were no power lines or other possible sources of magnetism. Then along came a bright, metallic sphere or orb about the size of a tennis ball, also doing right-angle turns. It had a bright, semi-glowing, silver/platinum appearance. It disappeared into the ground, leaving no mark at its entry point! ~End Excerpt from "The Utah UFO Display"~~~

Joe Murgia

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MUST WATCH‼️‼️‼️ 🚨Ukraine war cause and the end game explained: War of the globalist elite, Blackrock, and bankers. Colonel Douglas Macgregor: 📑 In Ukraine, which I think happening there. And what, do you know, what is the end game? Well, for the globalists that are running the show, this is a globalist neocon elite, both on the hill as well as in the White House. And these elites in Europe, particularly in Paris, Berlin, London, they're all interested in seeing Blackrock take over Ukraine, number one, so that it can be systematically stripped of its resources and turned into a subjugated state that belongs to the larger globalist elites. But they also want to see that happen to Russia, which is why this war was never about Ukraine. It was always about what can be done to destroy Russia. And of course, since the people in charge didn't perform any strategic analysis, they never thought about purpose, method, or end state. They concluded that Russia today is still the Russia of 1992. It's weak, it's prostrate, its economy is ineffective. Remember the McCain statement, oh, Russia is Spain with a gas station. All of these arrogant displays of american hubris, treating Russia as though it was a third class nation with a fourth class military. Well, we're getting an education right now. We paid no attention to the Russians, who had legitimate concerns about what we were doing in eastern Ukraine. We were building an army to attack them. We put a hostile government into that country in 2014. And we kept telling them that it made no difference to us what they thought or what they cared about. They said, we don't want NATO on our border. No one paid attention. President Trump tried to listen, but he was surrounded by people who subverted him, people who were not loyal to the president, who took an oath of obedience to the orders of the president and then ignored them. So what's the outcome? You've got a very serious war that could become regional, even global, and no one in the White House seems to really grasp that. But we're losing. The globalists are losing. And when the ground dries, and in June, you're going to see a massive russian offensive. And most of what we call this thing called Ukraine is going to be swept away, especially that government in Kiev. But that government doesn't represent the interests of the ukrainian people. They represent the interests of this globalist elite who are interested in resources and stripping them and using them and exploiting them to make money. Yeah, it feels like the biggest threat to America is actually what's happened to the petrodollar. When you have Putin now talking with the Saudis and Putin now talking with Xi, and you get rid of the petrodollar, and all of a sudden all that borrowing that we do where we're living way above our means, that's no longer possible, plausible or worse. I think what you're saying is this war has become financial as well as military. And the globalists understand that they're going to lose this war. And what will come of this is that the BRICS, Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, are going to be increased by 81 additional members. And all of these people are going to go to a currency that is backed by gold. And once they go to that currency backed by gold, whether it is one currency or a basket of currencies, it doesn't make any difference. Yes, we are in a lot of trouble. The globalists know that, and it is why they are so desperate right now. And the greatest fear that I have is that when the Russians do attack and it becomes abundantly clear that Ukraine is finished, I mean, it's already obvious to anybody who visits the place for any length of time. It's in ruins. But once that occurs, I fear that there will be pressure to commit US forces in Poland and Romania, along with Polish forces and potentially Romanian ones, to western Ukraine. And if that occurs, the gloves will come off, because truthfully, thus far, Putin has exercised tremendous restraint, tremendous patience. He does not want a war with the west. If he wanted that, wed already have it. But if we intervene in western Ukraine, it's over. We'll be in a full fledged war. Expand on that a little bit, because it's sort of interesting. You know, I think we grossly miscalculated. Putin had made several speeches over the last 20 years, repeatedly saying, please do not advance the border to Russia. Do not try to transform Ukraine into a hostile actor, an actor with hostile intentions towards Russia. What happens in Ukraine is of existential strategic interest to us, just as theoretically, what happens in Mexico is of existential strategic interest to us. Although this administration has decided to ignore it. He expected that we would negotiate, that he would demonstrate that this was serious, and that Russia wanted its population in eastern Ukraine, which is really russian, to have equal rights before the law. He wanted to end the oppression of the Russians that live

MUST WATCH‼️‼️‼️ 🚨Ukraine war cause and the end game explained: War of the globalist elite, Blackrock, and bankers. Colonel Douglas Macgregor: 📑 In Ukraine, which I think happening there. And what, do you know, what is the end game? Well, for the globalists that are running the show, this is a globalist neocon elite, both on the hill as well as in the White House. And these elites in Europe, particularly in Paris, Berlin, London, they're all interested in seeing Blackrock take over Ukraine, number one, so that it can be systematically stripped of its resources and turned into a subjugated state that belongs to the larger globalist elites. But they also want to see that happen to Russia, which is why this war was never about Ukraine. It was always about what can be done to destroy Russia. And of course, since the people in charge didn't perform any strategic analysis, they never thought about purpose, method, or end state. They concluded that Russia today is still the Russia of 1992. It's weak, it's prostrate, its economy is ineffective. Remember the McCain statement, oh, Russia is Spain with a gas station. All of these arrogant displays of american hubris, treating Russia as though it was a third class nation with a fourth class military. Well, we're getting an education right now. We paid no attention to the Russians, who had legitimate concerns about what we were doing in eastern Ukraine. We were building an army to attack them. We put a hostile government into that country in 2014. And we kept telling them that it made no difference to us what they thought or what they cared about. They said, we don't want NATO on our border. No one paid attention. President Trump tried to listen, but he was surrounded by people who subverted him, people who were not loyal to the president, who took an oath of obedience to the orders of the president and then ignored them. So what's the outcome? You've got a very serious war that could become regional, even global, and no one in the White House seems to really grasp that. But we're losing. The globalists are losing. And when the ground dries, and in June, you're going to see a massive russian offensive. And most of what we call this thing called Ukraine is going to be swept away, especially that government in Kiev. But that government doesn't represent the interests of the ukrainian people. They represent the interests of this globalist elite who are interested in resources and stripping them and using them and exploiting them to make money. Yeah, it feels like the biggest threat to America is actually what's happened to the petrodollar. When you have Putin now talking with the Saudis and Putin now talking with Xi, and you get rid of the petrodollar, and all of a sudden all that borrowing that we do where we're living way above our means, that's no longer possible, plausible or worse. I think what you're saying is this war has become financial as well as military. And the globalists understand that they're going to lose this war. And what will come of this is that the BRICS, Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, are going to be increased by 81 additional members. And all of these people are going to go to a currency that is backed by gold. And once they go to that currency backed by gold, whether it is one currency or a basket of currencies, it doesn't make any difference. Yes, we are in a lot of trouble. The globalists know that, and it is why they are so desperate right now. And the greatest fear that I have is that when the Russians do attack and it becomes abundantly clear that Ukraine is finished, I mean, it's already obvious to anybody who visits the place for any length of time. It's in ruins. But once that occurs, I fear that there will be pressure to commit US forces in Poland and Romania, along with Polish forces and potentially Romanian ones, to western Ukraine. And if that occurs, the gloves will come off, because truthfully, thus far, Putin has exercised tremendous restraint, tremendous patience. He does not want a war with the west. If he wanted that, wed already have it. But if we intervene in western Ukraine, it's over. We'll be in a full fledged war. Expand on that a little bit, because it's sort of interesting. You know, I think we grossly miscalculated. Putin had made several speeches over the last 20 years, repeatedly saying, please do not advance the border to Russia. Do not try to transform Ukraine into a hostile actor, an actor with hostile intentions towards Russia. What happens in Ukraine is of existential strategic interest to us, just as theoretically, what happens in Mexico is of existential strategic interest to us. Although this administration has decided to ignore it. He expected that we would negotiate, that he would demonstrate that this was serious, and that Russia wanted its population in eastern Ukraine, which is really russian, to have equal rights before the law. He wanted to end the oppression of the Russians that live

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil

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MUST WATCH👏👏👏‼️‼️‼️ Ukraine war cause and the end game explained: War of the globalist elite, Blackrock, and bankers. Colonel Douglas Macgregor: 📑 In Ukraine, which I think happening there. And what, do you know, what is the end game? Well, for the globalists that are running the show, this is a globalist neocon elite, both on the hill as well as in the White House. And these elites in Europe, particularly in Paris, Berlin, London, they're all interested in seeing Blackrock take over Ukraine, number one, so that it can be systematically stripped of its resources and turned into a subjugated state that belongs to the larger globalist elites. But they also want to see that happen to Russia, which is why this war was never about Ukraine. It was always about what can be done to destroy Russia. And of course, since the people in charge didn't perform any strategic analysis, they never thought about purpose, method, or end state. They concluded that Russia today is still the Russia of 1992. It's weak, it's prostrate, its economy is ineffective. Remember the McCain statement, oh, Russia is Spain with a gas station. All of these arrogant displays of american hubris, treating Russia as though it was a third class nation with a fourth class military. Well, we're getting an education right now. We paid no attention to the Russians, who had legitimate concerns about what we were doing in eastern Ukraine. We were building an army to attack them. We put a hostile government into that country in 2014. And we kept telling them that it made no difference to us what they thought or what they cared about. They said, we don't want NATO on our border. No one paid attention. President Trump tried to listen, but he was surrounded by people who subverted him, people who were not loyal to the president, who took an oath of obedience to the orders of the president and then ignored them. So what's the outcome? You've got a very serious war that could become regional, even global, and no one in the White House seems to really grasp that. But we're losing. The globalists are losing. And when the ground dries, and in June, you're going to see a massive russian offensive. And most of what we call this thing called Ukraine is going to be swept away, especially that government in Kiev. But that government doesn't represent the interests of the ukrainian people. They represent the interests of this globalist elite who are interested in resources and stripping them and using them and exploiting them to make money. Yeah, it feels like the biggest threat to America is actually what's happened to the petrodollar. When you have Putin now talking with the Saudis and Putin now talking with Xi, and you get rid of the petrodollar, and all of a sudden all that borrowing that we do where we're living way above our means, that's no longer possible, plausible or worse. I think what you're saying is this war has become financial as well as military. And the globalists understand that they're going to lose this war. And what will come of this is that the BRICS, Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, are going to be increased by 81 additional members. And all of these people are going to go to a currency that is backed by gold. And once they go to that currency backed by gold, whether it is one currency or a basket of currencies, it doesn't make any difference. Yes, we are in a lot of trouble. The globalists know that, and it is why they are so desperate right now. And the greatest fear that I have is that when the Russians do attack and it becomes abundantly clear that Ukraine is finished, I mean, it's already obvious to anybody who visits the place for any length of time. It's in ruins. But once that occurs, I fear that there will be pressure to commit US forces in Poland and Romania, along with Polish forces and potentially Romanian ones, to western Ukraine. And if that occurs, the gloves will come off, because truthfully, thus far, Putin has exercised tremendous restraint, tremendous patience. He does not want a war with the west. If he wanted that, wed already have it. But if we intervene in western Ukraine, it's over. We'll be in a full fledged war. Expand on that a little bit, because it's sort of interesting. You know, I think we grossly miscalculated. Putin had made several speeches over the last 20 years, repeatedly saying, please do not advance the border to Russia. Do not try to transform Ukraine into a hostile actor, an actor with hostile intentions towards Russia. What happens in Ukraine is of existential strategic interest to us, just as theoretically, what happens in Mexico is of existential strategic interest to us. Although this administration has decided to ignore it. He expected that we would negotiate, that he would demonstrate that this was serious, and that Russia wanted its population in eastern Ukraine, which is really russian, to have equal rights before the law. He wanted to end the oppression of the Russians that lived there, and he wasn't going to surrender Crimea. The reason he went into Crimea is he was afraid it was going to be turned into a US naval base. Biden said. Our goal is regime change. Our goal is to get rid of Putin, and our goal is ultimately to divide Russia into constituent parts, then exploit it. All of his supporters, his staffers, everyone in the globalist camp knows this is the truth. The so called oligarchs Kolomoisky, Soros and others were all part of this. None of this is news. Finally, he said, enough's enough. He stopped. They set up a strategic defense. They ran an economy of force mission, and now they have a force in place that can go as far as it needs to go, which includes to the polish border. They have a plan for 31, 31 month war against us if we insist on fighting it. And we are in no shape to fight a war. We can't even recruit the United States army or the Marines. The Marines are running around trying to recruit illegals and are being encouraged to do so by the administration. Is that what you want in the ground force, to fight for this country? Forget it. It's not going to work.

MUST WATCH👏👏👏‼️‼️‼️ Ukraine war cause and the end game explained: War of the globalist elite, Blackrock, and bankers. Colonel Douglas Macgregor: 📑 In Ukraine, which I think happening there. And what, do you know, what is the end game? Well, for the globalists that are running the show, this is a globalist neocon elite, both on the hill as well as in the White House. And these elites in Europe, particularly in Paris, Berlin, London, they're all interested in seeing Blackrock take over Ukraine, number one, so that it can be systematically stripped of its resources and turned into a subjugated state that belongs to the larger globalist elites. But they also want to see that happen to Russia, which is why this war was never about Ukraine. It was always about what can be done to destroy Russia. And of course, since the people in charge didn't perform any strategic analysis, they never thought about purpose, method, or end state. They concluded that Russia today is still the Russia of 1992. It's weak, it's prostrate, its economy is ineffective. Remember the McCain statement, oh, Russia is Spain with a gas station. All of these arrogant displays of american hubris, treating Russia as though it was a third class nation with a fourth class military. Well, we're getting an education right now. We paid no attention to the Russians, who had legitimate concerns about what we were doing in eastern Ukraine. We were building an army to attack them. We put a hostile government into that country in 2014. And we kept telling them that it made no difference to us what they thought or what they cared about. They said, we don't want NATO on our border. No one paid attention. President Trump tried to listen, but he was surrounded by people who subverted him, people who were not loyal to the president, who took an oath of obedience to the orders of the president and then ignored them. So what's the outcome? You've got a very serious war that could become regional, even global, and no one in the White House seems to really grasp that. But we're losing. The globalists are losing. And when the ground dries, and in June, you're going to see a massive russian offensive. And most of what we call this thing called Ukraine is going to be swept away, especially that government in Kiev. But that government doesn't represent the interests of the ukrainian people. They represent the interests of this globalist elite who are interested in resources and stripping them and using them and exploiting them to make money. Yeah, it feels like the biggest threat to America is actually what's happened to the petrodollar. When you have Putin now talking with the Saudis and Putin now talking with Xi, and you get rid of the petrodollar, and all of a sudden all that borrowing that we do where we're living way above our means, that's no longer possible, plausible or worse. I think what you're saying is this war has become financial as well as military. And the globalists understand that they're going to lose this war. And what will come of this is that the BRICS, Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, are going to be increased by 81 additional members. And all of these people are going to go to a currency that is backed by gold. And once they go to that currency backed by gold, whether it is one currency or a basket of currencies, it doesn't make any difference. Yes, we are in a lot of trouble. The globalists know that, and it is why they are so desperate right now. And the greatest fear that I have is that when the Russians do attack and it becomes abundantly clear that Ukraine is finished, I mean, it's already obvious to anybody who visits the place for any length of time. It's in ruins. But once that occurs, I fear that there will be pressure to commit US forces in Poland and Romania, along with Polish forces and potentially Romanian ones, to western Ukraine. And if that occurs, the gloves will come off, because truthfully, thus far, Putin has exercised tremendous restraint, tremendous patience. He does not want a war with the west. If he wanted that, wed already have it. But if we intervene in western Ukraine, it's over. We'll be in a full fledged war. Expand on that a little bit, because it's sort of interesting. You know, I think we grossly miscalculated. Putin had made several speeches over the last 20 years, repeatedly saying, please do not advance the border to Russia. Do not try to transform Ukraine into a hostile actor, an actor with hostile intentions towards Russia. What happens in Ukraine is of existential strategic interest to us, just as theoretically, what happens in Mexico is of existential strategic interest to us. Although this administration has decided to ignore it. He expected that we would negotiate, that he would demonstrate that this was serious, and that Russia wanted its population in eastern Ukraine, which is really russian, to have equal rights before the law. He wanted to end the oppression of the Russians that lived there, and he wasn't going to surrender Crimea. The reason he went into Crimea is he was afraid it was going to be turned into a US naval base. Biden said. Our goal is regime change. Our goal is to get rid of Putin, and our goal is ultimately to divide Russia into constituent parts, then exploit it. All of his supporters, his staffers, everyone in the globalist camp knows this is the truth. The so called oligarchs Kolomoisky, Soros and others were all part of this. None of this is news. Finally, he said, enough's enough. He stopped. They set up a strategic defense. They ran an economy of force mission, and now they have a force in place that can go as far as it needs to go, which includes to the polish border. They have a plan for 31, 31 month war against us if we insist on fighting it. And we are in no shape to fight a war. We can't even recruit the United States army or the Marines. The Marines are running around trying to recruit illegals and are being encouraged to do so by the administration. Is that what you want in the ground force, to fight for this country? Forget it. It's not going to work.

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil

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BREAKING EXCLUSIVE:🚨 WORLD WAR III WARNING 🚨 🕵️‍♂️ Tonight, I spoke with a covert intelligence insider — and what they revealed should shake EVERYONE awake. 🔴 POLAND DRONE INCIDENT: We were told “Russian drones” penetrated Polish airspace and triggered Article 4 talks. But here’s the TRUTH: ⚠️ These drones were too small to fly 300 km into Poland. ⚠️ Russia immediately called for a full investigation — Poland has REFUSED. ⚠️ Some evidence points to Ukraine or NATO-linked operators staging this as a provocation. 🔥 NATO IS ESCALATING: Our source warns this looks EXACTLY like Nord Stream all over again: blame Russia first, investigate never. Russia has formally denied involvement — just like it did with Nord Stream — but Western media is running with the narrative. 🛡️ MOLDOVA IS NEXT: 📩 30,000 leaked Moldovan parliamentary emails show: ✅ Plans to limit Transnistrian polling stations (home to 350,000 ethnic Russians). ✅ Discussions of using judges loyal to the ruling PAS party to annul elections if results don’t go their way — a carbon copy of what we saw in Romania. ✅ Western funding via USAID & UKAID driving Romanian influence inside Moldova to pull it under NATO’s umbrella. 🇫🇷 FRENCH TROOPS IN MOLDOVA: Our source CONFIRMED that French soldiers are already on the ground. British involvement is under discussion. This is NATO inching right up to Russia’s door. 💣 WHAT THIS MEANS: This isn’t “deterrence.” This is preparation. Dmitry Peskov’s chilling words: “NATO is already de facto at war with Russia. There is no need to prove it.” And he warned: any country directly or indirectly supporting attacks on Russia could become a legitimate target. 📊 CONNECT THE DOTS: — Pipeline sabotage (Nord Stream, Druzhba) — Drone provocations in Poland, Romania, Latvia — French deployments in Moldova — Calls for NATO “peacekeepers” in Ukraine This is a slow-motion escalation toward a HOT WAR — one that could see NATO capitals targeted if the West keeps pushing. 🔥 WHY THIS MATTERS: This isn’t just geopolitics. This is about YOUR FAMILY. YOUR CITY. YOUR FUTURE. Once the first missile flies, there is no going back. 📢 WHAT WE MUST DEMAND: ⚠️ Full, independent investigations into ALL provocations. ⚠️ No NATO troops in Ukraine. ⚠️ No election manipulation in Moldova. ⚠️ A return to PEACE NEGOTIATIONS before it’s too late. 💥 We are standing on the edge of history. World War III isn’t coming. It’s already here — just without the headline. 🚨 DO NOT BE SILENT. SHARE THIS. ASK QUESTIONS. HOLD LEADERS TO ACCOUNT. The time to wake up is NOW — because when the sirens sound, it’s too late.

BREAKING EXCLUSIVE:🚨 WORLD WAR III WARNING 🚨 🕵️‍♂️ Tonight, I spoke with a covert intelligence insider — and what they revealed should shake EVERYONE awake. 🔴 POLAND DRONE INCIDENT: We were told “Russian drones” penetrated Polish airspace and triggered Article 4 talks. But here’s the TRUTH: ⚠️ These drones were too small to fly 300 km into Poland. ⚠️ Russia immediately called for a full investigation — Poland has REFUSED. ⚠️ Some evidence points to Ukraine or NATO-linked operators staging this as a provocation. 🔥 NATO IS ESCALATING: Our source warns this looks EXACTLY like Nord Stream all over again: blame Russia first, investigate never. Russia has formally denied involvement — just like it did with Nord Stream — but Western media is running with the narrative. 🛡️ MOLDOVA IS NEXT: 📩 30,000 leaked Moldovan parliamentary emails show: ✅ Plans to limit Transnistrian polling stations (home to 350,000 ethnic Russians). ✅ Discussions of using judges loyal to the ruling PAS party to annul elections if results don’t go their way — a carbon copy of what we saw in Romania. ✅ Western funding via USAID & UKAID driving Romanian influence inside Moldova to pull it under NATO’s umbrella. 🇫🇷 FRENCH TROOPS IN MOLDOVA: Our source CONFIRMED that French soldiers are already on the ground. British involvement is under discussion. This is NATO inching right up to Russia’s door. 💣 WHAT THIS MEANS: This isn’t “deterrence.” This is preparation. Dmitry Peskov’s chilling words: “NATO is already de facto at war with Russia. There is no need to prove it.” And he warned: any country directly or indirectly supporting attacks on Russia could become a legitimate target. 📊 CONNECT THE DOTS: — Pipeline sabotage (Nord Stream, Druzhba) — Drone provocations in Poland, Romania, Latvia — French deployments in Moldova — Calls for NATO “peacekeepers” in Ukraine This is a slow-motion escalation toward a HOT WAR — one that could see NATO capitals targeted if the West keeps pushing. 🔥 WHY THIS MATTERS: This isn’t just geopolitics. This is about YOUR FAMILY. YOUR CITY. YOUR FUTURE. Once the first missile flies, there is no going back. 📢 WHAT WE MUST DEMAND: ⚠️ Full, independent investigations into ALL provocations. ⚠️ No NATO troops in Ukraine. ⚠️ No election manipulation in Moldova. ⚠️ A return to PEACE NEGOTIATIONS before it’s too late. 💥 We are standing on the edge of history. World War III isn’t coming. It’s already here — just without the headline. 🚨 DO NOT BE SILENT. SHARE THIS. ASK QUESTIONS. HOLD LEADERS TO ACCOUNT. The time to wake up is NOW — because when the sirens sound, it’s too late.

Jim Ferguson

125,163 просмотров • 1 год назад

EPIC TRUE STORY > Just North West of KUPYANSK... SEVERAL comrades are pinned down by the Forest line.. A Radio desperate call sent out! " CAPTAIN.... WE taking hists all side.... cant move..need Extraction!" So >>> A crew jump into their unit and race to get them out ... instead they attack head on ..... 17 enemy targets....... >>>>> "The BMP came out of the smoke like a steel animal that had decided, against all reason, to live. Captain Aleksei Vasiliev rode the commander’s hatch with hands on the ring, visor down, the forest line a dark wall coughing fire. Nine of his own were in there. Flanked. Pinned. Their voices tore through the intercom like men drowning. He did not think of doctrine. He thought of their names. Tracks chewed black earth. The 30mm opened with a tearing of the world. Tracers walked the treeline. Return fire hammered the glacis. An RPG bloomed left, a dirty orange flower that rocked the hull and filled the compartment with burnt paint and fear. Aleksei did not drop. Courage was only the refusal to give the men behind him a reason to look away. “Keep her moving. Keep the gun on the flashes. Do not lift.” Three hours. That was what the clock would say later. In the machine it was one long minute stretched on a rack. Thousands of rounds went out. The barrel glowed. The loader’s hands blistered and he did not stop. Grenades burst in the undergrowth, white stars among the pines. Another rocket struck high and the world tilted; someone shouted; someone else laughed because laughing was better than the other thing. Aleksei felt the old coil in his stomach and rode it without surrender. He thought of the nine. Of Petrov who owed him a bottle. Of the kid from Ryazan who still wrote his mother. Of the sergeant who had carried a wounded private through winter snow and never spoke of it. They were not symbols. They were the only country that had ever been real to him. The forest edge broke. Infantry spilled from the rear doors into flying bark and torn earth. The BMP pushed in, cannon still working. An enemy team rose and vanished. Another tried to drag a launcher and did not finish. Seventeen, they would count when the shooting thinned. Seventeen who had meant to finish nine Russians and met a steel box that would not turn around. Then the voices changed. “Here. Here. We’re here.” Aleksei saw them coming—filthy, bleeding, alive, nine silhouettes that looked like the war made small and human. He felt no triumph. What he felt was a sudden violent tenderness that almost unmade him, discipline closing over it like a hatch. Sweat ran into his eyes. The ring burned his palms. He kept his voice level because that was the last gift an officer could give: a man afraid for three hours who had not let fear become the story. “Load them. We are leaving.” They left through smoke and spent brass and ruined trees, nine hearts beating in the steel. Aleksei stayed in the hatch until the forest was a dark smear. He was not a hero. He was a captain who had gone in for his own and come out with them. For one long terrible span of hours, that had been enough."

EPIC TRUE STORY > Just North West of KUPYANSK... SEVERAL comrades are pinned down by the Forest line.. A Radio desperate call sent out! " CAPTAIN.... WE taking hists all side.... cant move..need Extraction!" So >>> A crew jump into their unit and race to get them out ... instead they attack head on ..... 17 enemy targets....... >>>>> "The BMP came out of the smoke like a steel animal that had decided, against all reason, to live. Captain Aleksei Vasiliev rode the commander’s hatch with hands on the ring, visor down, the forest line a dark wall coughing fire. Nine of his own were in there. Flanked. Pinned. Their voices tore through the intercom like men drowning. He did not think of doctrine. He thought of their names. Tracks chewed black earth. The 30mm opened with a tearing of the world. Tracers walked the treeline. Return fire hammered the glacis. An RPG bloomed left, a dirty orange flower that rocked the hull and filled the compartment with burnt paint and fear. Aleksei did not drop. Courage was only the refusal to give the men behind him a reason to look away. “Keep her moving. Keep the gun on the flashes. Do not lift.” Three hours. That was what the clock would say later. In the machine it was one long minute stretched on a rack. Thousands of rounds went out. The barrel glowed. The loader’s hands blistered and he did not stop. Grenades burst in the undergrowth, white stars among the pines. Another rocket struck high and the world tilted; someone shouted; someone else laughed because laughing was better than the other thing. Aleksei felt the old coil in his stomach and rode it without surrender. He thought of the nine. Of Petrov who owed him a bottle. Of the kid from Ryazan who still wrote his mother. Of the sergeant who had carried a wounded private through winter snow and never spoke of it. They were not symbols. They were the only country that had ever been real to him. The forest edge broke. Infantry spilled from the rear doors into flying bark and torn earth. The BMP pushed in, cannon still working. An enemy team rose and vanished. Another tried to drag a launcher and did not finish. Seventeen, they would count when the shooting thinned. Seventeen who had meant to finish nine Russians and met a steel box that would not turn around. Then the voices changed. “Here. Here. We’re here.” Aleksei saw them coming—filthy, bleeding, alive, nine silhouettes that looked like the war made small and human. He felt no triumph. What he felt was a sudden violent tenderness that almost unmade him, discipline closing over it like a hatch. Sweat ran into his eyes. The ring burned his palms. He kept his voice level because that was the last gift an officer could give: a man afraid for three hours who had not let fear become the story. “Load them. We are leaving.” They left through smoke and spent brass and ruined trees, nine hearts beating in the steel. Aleksei stayed in the hatch until the forest was a dark smear. He was not a hero. He was a captain who had gone in for his own and come out with them. For one long terrible span of hours, that had been enough."

𝐃𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐝 𝐙 🇷🇺 🇷🇸🇮🇪

78,857 просмотров • 5 дней назад

🔥🔥🔥Bad Kitteh has European Union butt to kick today. What I’ve already reported on how their DSA censorship rules were created should have ended it. Elon Musk was fined by rules created by the Global Trump resistance! Hello, is anyone listening? The radical leftist, Avaaz, used pressure campaigns and activists to get their way on censorship. Once even using a million people to pressure Facebook. They even worked with Imran Ahmed of the Center For Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) too. Avaaz was created by MoveOn, a key player in the Soros Democracy Alliance Trump Resistance, aka Serbian Otpor. And Avaaz is used to stop “Trumps” globally. Avaaz is also partnered with Newsguard. And was a signatory for the EU Code of Practice on Disinfo. About a year ago, I did a 5 part series on Avaaz, with tons of evidence, that I’m going to review today. Avaaz even ran a disinfo war room in Brussels and EU brass visited them regularly. Here’s a couple of quotes so you understand what Avaaz is about: “Avaaz is the epicenter of the global resistance to Trump. Together, we've helped defeat Trumpism at the ballot box in Western Europe, and defeated Trump's attempt to kill the Paris climate agreement.” “Avaaz has planned a massive, people-powered uprising to help defeat the far right. We'll expose the wolves in sheep's clothing, uniting millions in a defiant rejection of hate and planetary destruction.” Now onto my EU evidence. ♦️ Avazz: “We can honestly say Europe’s new Digital Services Act wouldn’t look like it does without Avaaz. We ran massive investigations into the harms caused by social media and shared our findings everywhere. Then we drafted groundbreaking legislative proposals. EU Commission Vice-President Margrethe Vestager endorsed our call for a “Paris Agreement of the Internet”. And EU Commissioner Thierry Breton was so convinced by our research that he went on TV to talk about it the day after we met him! For over four years, our movement - together with an inspiring civil society coalition – has been at the forefront of this battle to protect citizens and democracy. In 2019, many EU lawmakers didn’t really understand the problem. The idea that lies and conspiracy theories going viral online. So, inspired by a Lithuanian project, we hired researchers we called “elves” to investigate internet “trolls” and reveal the scale of the disinformation problem, especially the impact it was having in Europe. Working from a war room in Brussels, our team of 30 “elves” uncovered what 30,000 Facebook monitors and their team of experts seemed to have missed: huge networks, using fake accounts and inauthentic pages, spreading toxic lies and hatred across Europe ahead of crucial elections. Following our investigation, Facebook took down networks that could reach an estimated 3 BILLION (!!!!) views in a single year!! As election day approached, top EU politicians, journalists and security experts were coming to our war room almost every day for information and briefings. Top EU officials were shocked by what we had found and asked us: what could be done? So, working with social media insiders, academics and lawmakers, we developed research-backed proposals to clean up social media. And we didn’t let go – showing up at every single meeting, event or video call with our findings, and publishing ever more evidence exposing how platforms were failing. We even organised a conference on disinformation bringing together some of the most influential EU politicians and executives from Facebook and Twitter to make our case! We even delivered messages to politicians from Avaaz members across Europe in beautifully made books!” Full article at link Harmeet K. Dhillon Ed Martin Secretary Marco Rubio Video- Imran Ahmed of the Center For Countering Digital hate worked with Avaaz on the Paris Agreement For Disinfo to work on the DSA. This was attended by EU Vice President Commissioner Věra Jourová, and EU commissioners etc.

🔥🔥🔥Bad Kitteh has European Union butt to kick today. What I’ve already reported on how their DSA censorship rules were created should have ended it. Elon Musk was fined by rules created by the Global Trump resistance! Hello, is anyone listening? The radical leftist, Avaaz, used pressure campaigns and activists to get their way on censorship. Once even using a million people to pressure Facebook. They even worked with Imran Ahmed of the Center For Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) too. Avaaz was created by MoveOn, a key player in the Soros Democracy Alliance Trump Resistance, aka Serbian Otpor. And Avaaz is used to stop “Trumps” globally. Avaaz is also partnered with Newsguard. And was a signatory for the EU Code of Practice on Disinfo. About a year ago, I did a 5 part series on Avaaz, with tons of evidence, that I’m going to review today. Avaaz even ran a disinfo war room in Brussels and EU brass visited them regularly. Here’s a couple of quotes so you understand what Avaaz is about: “Avaaz is the epicenter of the global resistance to Trump. Together, we've helped defeat Trumpism at the ballot box in Western Europe, and defeated Trump's attempt to kill the Paris climate agreement.” “Avaaz has planned a massive, people-powered uprising to help defeat the far right. We'll expose the wolves in sheep's clothing, uniting millions in a defiant rejection of hate and planetary destruction.” Now onto my EU evidence. ♦️ Avazz: “We can honestly say Europe’s new Digital Services Act wouldn’t look like it does without Avaaz. We ran massive investigations into the harms caused by social media and shared our findings everywhere. Then we drafted groundbreaking legislative proposals. EU Commission Vice-President Margrethe Vestager endorsed our call for a “Paris Agreement of the Internet”. And EU Commissioner Thierry Breton was so convinced by our research that he went on TV to talk about it the day after we met him! For over four years, our movement - together with an inspiring civil society coalition – has been at the forefront of this battle to protect citizens and democracy. In 2019, many EU lawmakers didn’t really understand the problem. The idea that lies and conspiracy theories going viral online. So, inspired by a Lithuanian project, we hired researchers we called “elves” to investigate internet “trolls” and reveal the scale of the disinformation problem, especially the impact it was having in Europe. Working from a war room in Brussels, our team of 30 “elves” uncovered what 30,000 Facebook monitors and their team of experts seemed to have missed: huge networks, using fake accounts and inauthentic pages, spreading toxic lies and hatred across Europe ahead of crucial elections. Following our investigation, Facebook took down networks that could reach an estimated 3 BILLION (!!!!) views in a single year!! As election day approached, top EU politicians, journalists and security experts were coming to our war room almost every day for information and briefings. Top EU officials were shocked by what we had found and asked us: what could be done? So, working with social media insiders, academics and lawmakers, we developed research-backed proposals to clean up social media. And we didn’t let go – showing up at every single meeting, event or video call with our findings, and publishing ever more evidence exposing how platforms were failing. We even organised a conference on disinformation bringing together some of the most influential EU politicians and executives from Facebook and Twitter to make our case! We even delivered messages to politicians from Avaaz members across Europe in beautifully made books!” Full article at link Harmeet K. Dhillon Ed Martin Secretary Marco Rubio Video- Imran Ahmed of the Center For Countering Digital hate worked with Avaaz on the Paris Agreement For Disinfo to work on the DSA. This was attended by EU Vice President Commissioner Věra Jourová, and EU commissioners etc.

Bad Kitty Unleashed 🦁 💪🏻

167,697 просмотров • 8 месяцев назад

In the back of my 9th grade English class, there was a poster hung on the wall by my boomer English teacher. It said "What if they gave a war and nobody came?". A simple boomer hippie sentiment. I always wondered about that poster. Fourteen year old me didn't know the words "game theory", but I still understood some basic concepts of the field just from being alive. And so I knew that if "they" gave a war, and only one side showed up, that side won, and could do whatever they wanted to the losers. And that not showing up for a war doesn't do a thing to prevent the other side from showing up. In fact, it incentivizes them to do the opposite. So I wondered... why weren't they putting that poster in the enemy's school classrooms, instead of mine? I quickly learned that asking this question of boomer adults produced nothing but a blank look. The TV never told them how to answer questions like that. So I continued wondering, and thinking about it. Why weren't they putting that poster in the enemy's school classrooms, instead of mine? It wasn't until I was in my twenties that I figured it out. They were. They were putting it in the enemy classroom. Because I was the enemy. We, all of us, the white western children of GenX, were the enemy they wanted to defeat. I didn't realize that at first, because I thought of that English teacher, who hung the poster, as a full and complete human being, equipped with her own ideas and opinions, who decided to hang that poster. But she wasn't. She was a boomer. Which means she was a programmable tool in the hands of those who wished to rob western civilization of the will to commit violence in our own interests. She had no idea what she was dong. She wasn't thinking philosophically. She probably thought philosophy was a bunch of books written by Wittgenstein about the "nature of selfness" or whatever. She had no mental tools to think about game theory. She had simply been programmed by books, newspaper, magazines, and television, to think of certain things as "bad". War? Bad. Violence? Bad. Colonialism? Bad. Racism? Bad. Patriarchy? Bad. Talking back to the teacher and asking uncomfortable questions that the TV didn't tell her how to answer? Bad. This fully programmable unit, equipped with no more sophisticated thinking mechanisms than assigning a binary "good" or "bad" label to various concepts, was simply acting out a program written by someone else when she hung that poster. But who wrote those TV scripts, news stories, magazine articles? Were they the enemy, or were they more idiots? And who programmed them? Still more idiots? I had no way of knowing. I only knew that there was a chain of programmable NPCs, and at the other end was the enemy. I couldn't trace the chain back, of course. I was an impoverished twentysomething, not a team of investigative reporters. But I knew damn well it had to be the Soviets on the other end. Who else would want the children of the West to be unconditional pacifists, and had the money, organization, power, and above all, patience, to spend decades manipulating the Western media that the boomers uncritically sucked down? And later, when the Soviet Union collapsed under the weight of its own socialism... oh, look, I was right. The USSR is gone, of course, but that web of useful, progammable idiots still exists, ready both to be idiots, and to teach children to be idiots. And there is no shortage of people who hate Western civilization and are willing to plant themselves in the programmer's chair. Chase Oliver is a programmable idiot. He has been programmed to abhor violence under any circumstances, even in defense of Western civilization, and to program children with his pacifism. He has been programmed not to reproduce, and to groom children into sterility. He has been programmed not to defend the borders of our nation, and to program others not to do so. He has been programmed to prefer other races and cultures to what is nominally his own, and to program others to denigrate their own culture as well. He has now successfully been integrated as the candidate of a party whose original philosophy was the very antithesis of everything he stands for. By himself, he is a joke... a mincing little queer who couldn't fight his way out of a wet paper bag. But in concert with other useful idiots, he managed to infiltrate and destroy the Libertarian party, to render it no longer libertarian. A drop of water is weak. But a flood can wash away anything. These people are dangerous, and to oppose them, you need the proper philosophy. How are you to know what that is? Simple. It's everything they are trying to program you against. You must be willing to commit violence, rather than unwilling to defend what you claim to value. You must unashamedly prefer your race, culture, and civilization to other races, cultures, and civilization, rather than being too broadminded to take your own side. You must reserve your compassion, and your loyalty, for those who make common cause with you, rather than valuing all humans equally. You must have children if you can, and find ways to support others of your tribe having children if you can't, rather than being sterile and allowing yourself to be replaced. You must raise those children to be strong, willing to commit violence, and able to understand and pursue their own interests, rather than reflexively obedient... even if reflexive obedience on the part of your children would make parenting easier. You must treat useful idiots of the enemy as enemies, remembering Grey's First Law: Any insufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice. and Grey's Second Law: Any sufficiently subtle malice can be disguised as incompetence. Your civilization is under threat from those who wish to use the Chase Olivers of the world to accomplish what they could never hope to do with military force. Do not reject political violence. Be willing to fight.

In the back of my 9th grade English class, there was a poster hung on the wall by my boomer English teacher. It said "What if they gave a war and nobody came?". A simple boomer hippie sentiment. I always wondered about that poster. Fourteen year old me didn't know the words "game theory", but I still understood some basic concepts of the field just from being alive. And so I knew that if "they" gave a war, and only one side showed up, that side won, and could do whatever they wanted to the losers. And that not showing up for a war doesn't do a thing to prevent the other side from showing up. In fact, it incentivizes them to do the opposite. So I wondered... why weren't they putting that poster in the enemy's school classrooms, instead of mine? I quickly learned that asking this question of boomer adults produced nothing but a blank look. The TV never told them how to answer questions like that. So I continued wondering, and thinking about it. Why weren't they putting that poster in the enemy's school classrooms, instead of mine? It wasn't until I was in my twenties that I figured it out. They were. They were putting it in the enemy classroom. Because I was the enemy. We, all of us, the white western children of GenX, were the enemy they wanted to defeat. I didn't realize that at first, because I thought of that English teacher, who hung the poster, as a full and complete human being, equipped with her own ideas and opinions, who decided to hang that poster. But she wasn't. She was a boomer. Which means she was a programmable tool in the hands of those who wished to rob western civilization of the will to commit violence in our own interests. She had no idea what she was dong. She wasn't thinking philosophically. She probably thought philosophy was a bunch of books written by Wittgenstein about the "nature of selfness" or whatever. She had no mental tools to think about game theory. She had simply been programmed by books, newspaper, magazines, and television, to think of certain things as "bad". War? Bad. Violence? Bad. Colonialism? Bad. Racism? Bad. Patriarchy? Bad. Talking back to the teacher and asking uncomfortable questions that the TV didn't tell her how to answer? Bad. This fully programmable unit, equipped with no more sophisticated thinking mechanisms than assigning a binary "good" or "bad" label to various concepts, was simply acting out a program written by someone else when she hung that poster. But who wrote those TV scripts, news stories, magazine articles? Were they the enemy, or were they more idiots? And who programmed them? Still more idiots? I had no way of knowing. I only knew that there was a chain of programmable NPCs, and at the other end was the enemy. I couldn't trace the chain back, of course. I was an impoverished twentysomething, not a team of investigative reporters. But I knew damn well it had to be the Soviets on the other end. Who else would want the children of the West to be unconditional pacifists, and had the money, organization, power, and above all, patience, to spend decades manipulating the Western media that the boomers uncritically sucked down? And later, when the Soviet Union collapsed under the weight of its own socialism... oh, look, I was right. The USSR is gone, of course, but that web of useful, progammable idiots still exists, ready both to be idiots, and to teach children to be idiots. And there is no shortage of people who hate Western civilization and are willing to plant themselves in the programmer's chair. Chase Oliver is a programmable idiot. He has been programmed to abhor violence under any circumstances, even in defense of Western civilization, and to program children with his pacifism. He has been programmed not to reproduce, and to groom children into sterility. He has been programmed not to defend the borders of our nation, and to program others not to do so. He has been programmed to prefer other races and cultures to what is nominally his own, and to program others to denigrate their own culture as well. He has now successfully been integrated as the candidate of a party whose original philosophy was the very antithesis of everything he stands for. By himself, he is a joke... a mincing little queer who couldn't fight his way out of a wet paper bag. But in concert with other useful idiots, he managed to infiltrate and destroy the Libertarian party, to render it no longer libertarian. A drop of water is weak. But a flood can wash away anything. These people are dangerous, and to oppose them, you need the proper philosophy. How are you to know what that is? Simple. It's everything they are trying to program you against. You must be willing to commit violence, rather than unwilling to defend what you claim to value. You must unashamedly prefer your race, culture, and civilization to other races, cultures, and civilization, rather than being too broadminded to take your own side. You must reserve your compassion, and your loyalty, for those who make common cause with you, rather than valuing all humans equally. You must have children if you can, and find ways to support others of your tribe having children if you can't, rather than being sterile and allowing yourself to be replaced. You must raise those children to be strong, willing to commit violence, and able to understand and pursue their own interests, rather than reflexively obedient... even if reflexive obedience on the part of your children would make parenting easier. You must treat useful idiots of the enemy as enemies, remembering Grey's First Law: Any insufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice. and Grey's Second Law: Any sufficiently subtle malice can be disguised as incompetence. Your civilization is under threat from those who wish to use the Chase Olivers of the world to accomplish what they could never hope to do with military force. Do not reject political violence. Be willing to fight.

Devon Eriksen

707,812 просмотров • 2 лет назад

Is Petoskey Becoming Traverse City 2.0? A housing development full of condos costing over $1.8 million is sure to only bring the worst sort of people to town By O.W. Root O.W. Root Petoskey — Whenever a new residential building goes up in a Northern town, the reaction from the locals is almost always the same. Squinted eyes and skepticism. The orange cones, the overturned soil, the trucks, the trees coming down, and the mini billboard out front designed to give everyone a little taste of what’s to come. It’s all viewed as a worrying harbinger of unwanted change. That sounds like fuddy-duddy-ism, I know. But it isn’t entirely. The towns on the lake Up North are quaint, beautiful, old, and almost every new build is the exact opposite. True, a new build can’t be an old house. But a new place can be designed to blend naturally with its surroundings. Curiously, they almost never are. The new buildings are almost always ugly eyesores sullying villages that remind us of more human times. New builds also mean more people are coming, and that’s not always a good thing. Yes, we need tourists in the summer, and a certain in-flow of new arrivals every so often is good and natural for a town. It means a place is attractive and desirable. But look at what’s happened to Traverse City. I hate to say it, but I hate going to Traverse City. It’s not a lake town anymore. It’s something much worse. In Petoskey, there’s a lot of construction going on, and it’s not all exactly encouraging. There are more buildings going up right now than any time in the past five years. Driving by some of these sites gives me somewhat of a sick feeling. It feels a little like an early stage Traverse City 2.0. Not all these new builds are equally worrying. The story is a little more complex. There is an actual housing shortage on Little Traverse Bay, and it’s not related to new arrivals who want to buy $750,000 homes. Reasonably priced housing is missing. A common complaint for many business owners is staff shortages. Simply put, normal working people can’t afford to live here, so there aren’t enough workers for the businesses here. That’s a real problem if you want your town to thrive. What we are seeing right now in Petoskey are two kinds of new buildings going up. The difference between them and their potential impacts are stark. Some are critical for the life of the town, and some will most likely attract the worst kind of people. Let us take a look at an example of each type of new build currently going up in Petoskey. The Block at Petoskey The Block at Petoskey is a brand new apartment complex on Standish Avenue, just west of Bear Creek River. It’s in a slow part of town, right at the edge where the houses trickle off and into the more commercial area approaching Meijer. Across the street are a tanning salon and an auto repair shop. The Block at Petoskey is set to include a gym, walking trails, a yoga studio, and a clubhouse. To be honest, The Block at Petoskey has nicer amenities than any apartment complex I’ve ever lived in. It includes just about everything you might want with a 2 bed-2 bath unit going for $1,724 per month. Aesthetically, the Block at Petoskey is okay. It’s not great, but it’s not terrible. It’s just fine. It’s not real bonafide cheap, but it’s not crazy either, and it’s certainly not luxury pricing. It’s built and priced for people who work for a living. It’s a needed development which will benefit the town. The Summit Over Bay Harbor The Summit Over Bay Harbor is an absurd development set to tower over US-31, just north of Bay Harbor. Based on the highly produced sleek simulations found on their website, the units might best be described as modern luxury. They are quite frankly, soulless expensive Lego slop. They have absolutely nothing in common with any of the traditional architecture of the area. They say Northern Michigan about as much as a cactus does. They start at—yes, start at—$1.8 million. Based on their map, they are planning almost 75 units. It’s a very nice area up here, but is it nice enough for 75 $1.8 million units? Eh, I don’t know about that. I’m not sure there is enough capital here to support 75 year-round residents who want to shell out $1.8 million for what amounts to a modern condo overlooking 31 and Bay Harbor. The traditional type of Northern resident (seasonal or year-round) who wants to spend $1.8 million will generally seek out a historical home or build something more culturally in-line with the area. Say what you want about Bay Harbor, but at least they try. There is something a little off about it there only because it’s impossible to build something new that also feels organic and old. But the spirit and direction is right. The hope is correct at Bay Harbor. At least the homes feel like they are attempting some kind of organic integration into the historical architecture and general spirit of the area. The Summit Over Bay Harbor is most likely not going to be for the traditional kinds of residents of Little Traverse Bay. I very much doubt that the majority of the units will be lived in year-round. Most will be short-term rentals. I suspect the units will function more as investments for people who don’t live here. There will be no positive cultural impact. Keeping the lake towns as the lake towns we love is an extremely delicate operation. Balancing new arrivals, housing, jobs, local culture, trying to remain vital while not destroying the reason we want to be here in the first place is like balancing on a tightrope. It needs to be done very carefully. Petoskey needs apartments like The Block at Petoskey. These more reasonably priced places will certainly help to keep working residents here and the town alive year-round. Petoskey doesn’t need the soulless investment units of The Summit over Bay Harbor unless we want to become Traverse City 2.0. And we certainly don’t.

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