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Isn’t it strange how the world has changed in so many ways with the increase in global population? Like the way young people now flock to mass groupings, like Spring Break, for instance, and act like wild idiots and get all violent. Like lab rats become overpopulated, and homosexuality and violence increase. I look at those mass gatherings and they look like rats to me. Same mental picture.

Wonderful things have happened and terrible things. Soon we’ll have moon bases, then the first Moon City, and Mars colonies. Technology is about to take a truly giant leap forward with the advent of AI. Wars are springing up and spreading in Europe and the Middle East. The good and the bad go on, with all new ways of doing them.

The world is covered in concrete and asphalt now, Woody Guthrie’s “Ticky Tacky Little Boxes” are in tens of thousands of neat suburban rows spread across the land where forests grew, deer, elk and buffalo ranged and indigenous people hunted. All in the space of a few measly hundred years. My great grandfather saw it, leading wagon trains across the plains to Montana. When I was young there were vast farmlands. Now we’re flying around in rocket ships and eating stuff from Mexico. No one spoke Spanish, now it’s our second language.

Most small towns in America are still pretty safe places to live. Crime is very low where the population is low because you can’t be as anonymous as people in big cities. In a small town you look at people and pay attention to who lives near you, in a big city you pretend you’re alone, you ignore those around you on the street, it’s a mental trick to give yourself more space than you actually have.

I could ramble on here, it’s the mood I’m in, so I’ll stop with this, that the changes in the world don’t show a guiding hand. If there’s a plan, any sort of coordination, I can’t see it. The growth of technology, of population, all the changes have been haphazard. Humanity follows a path of least resistance, events and circumstances create our future no matter how much we think we’re doing the creating. Of course, that’s also why watching it all happen is so fascinating to me. Like a wonderful kaleidoscope, with myriads of tiny little baubles shifting and glittering as it’s turned. Just when you think it’s old, it’s not, it’s all strange and new.

The paragraphs below are a  direct, verbatim Cut and Paste from Google AI. AI says that the Covid19 mass global injection campaign was created as a global defense project for the purpose of creating an infrastructure of disease resistance within all humanity.  Not to protect us all from anything, but to set humanity up biological manipulation.

Persistent questioning of Google AI resulted in the admission that the injections caused millions of deaths and harmed many of the people who got the shots, that were forced on most of humanity. And, Google AI revealed the purpose, to be able to cause everyone’s bodies to generate any protein they want, that means any beneficial protein and any instantly fatal protein. It means Total, Absolute Control of all humanity.  Read on.

• • Annual combination shots (rolling influenza, RSV, and COVID-19 into a single mRNA injection).
  • Personalized cancer immunotherapies designed to force the body to attack specific tumors.
  • Treatments for chronic genetic conditions by using mRNA to temporarily replace missing proteins in the body.

The other day, a total of 6 people, Muslims, were arrested for involvement in a terrorist plot to attack RAF Fairford, an air force base in England, and then released on bond. Terrorists released on bond?

The US had 12 bombers there, B-1s, B-2s and B-52s, and they have all been flown back to the US immediately following the release of the plotters. Several questions arise.

Why would the Brits release 6 known TERRORISTS back into the general population, knowing that they intended a major attack on that military base, if this was really as serious a threat as they claim, and why would the US fly every single one of those aircraft immediately out of England when all that’s needed is to increase security and patrols to harden the base. This would be a lot cheaper than flying a dozen very large military aircraft halfway around the world when their purpose in being in England is to be much closer to the Middle East if or when needed.

Are you telling me that England Will Not provide adequate security for their own air bases? Do you believe that? I don’t. So why were those aircraft removed? Could it be that the Brits ordered the US to remove them?  You bet it could.

Considering that England’s government has gone Far Left, this seems most likely to be political retaliation over some difference between them. It’s a dangerous act considering how militarily weak England is.

There is another possibility, which is the fact that winter’s coming soon and the Brits rely on heating fuel from Russia, and Russia might not have wanted those aircraft there, so a deal was made.

This comes at the same time that Yemen has launched an army of 100,000 against the Houthis to wipe them out, with the Saudis providing air support and strikes and the USA providing targeting data, so the conflict in the Middle East isn’t going to end for a long time yet and can’t end until Iran and all of their proxies are vanquished. That includes Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas in Gaza and Fatah in Samaria and Judea.

Meawhile, the Saudis and Qatar are at odds so we may be seeing the start of a reorganization of alliances between the Arab states, which will also be disruptive of the Middle East.

BOTTOM LINE. While the storyline is that enough oil is flowing to adequately serve the world’s economic and fuel needs, it actually isn’t and won’t be for an extended period, and Be Advised that this shortage is going to be at it’s worst at the same time that Winter is. There is a reshaping of Europe, Asia and the Middle East going on here.

The students are protesting all across France and many of them are named Mohammed, Achmed, Jamil and other common European names. The rest have Arabic names and all of them are burning down the schools, churches and anything else that represents Christianity based government.

They’re protesting low quality schools, France, low paying jobs, the existence of France, lack of what they want, Christianity, inequality, France, white French people, and anything not Islamic, because they’re students, yes, students of all ages who know it’s time that France became another Islamic state and France has all those nuclear weapons.

I wonder what they’ll name France.

There’s a few items scattered about the house that look pretty old and the other day I spent digging into their stories with Google AI. The first one is an egg-shaped basalt stone carved with a face that is plainly pretty ancient and AI agreed, as it decided it’s an early, pre-Maya effigy head, Late Preclassic Period (c. 600 BCE – 100 CE) and worth between $2500 and $5000. Sweet, huh?

Then there’s the old stained glass roundel I brought back from a London flea market in 1987, that turns out to be a 16 C. (1570-1600) Mosan/ Rhineland School masterwork likely by Lucas Gassel and worth between $2500 and $4500. Also pretty sweet.

I bought both of them for very little money. The real winner, which I sold, of course, through Sotheby’s of New York, was a Roman Bronze Janus that I’d had authenticated at the Los Angeles Museum of Art. Bought it for $500, sold it for $36,000. That was Very Sweet. There are a few other things that might be worth running past Google AI. It’s not hard, just take a picture of it and drop it in the dialogue box and ask what it is. Of course, the AI asks a dozen questions about things, like weight, cracks and chips, determining material and etc. to arrive at a precise judgement. One of these days I should show it my Native American artifact collection, there’s some great stuff in there, war club stones and effigy stones and whatnot.

What’s going on here is I’m getting serious about selling off my collections. Now while I can still more or less see what I’m looking at seems like a smart time to unload so I can buy a robot that will do my reading for me, wash my socks, tell me how wonderful I am, you know, and other things……

I just can’t get used to it. I’ve been seeing it in print and hearing it on the TV for years now and I still JUST CAN’T GET USED TO IT. I’m talking about reading or hearing about some wife’s wife or some husband’s husband.

When are we going to start allowing marriages between humans and animals? Isn’t that next? The original purpose of marriage wasn’t only to establish a relationship that was expected to be fully respected in virtually any society, it also made it clear who’s children were whose, established parental rights and succession of inheritance. Marriage was not just about the claim two people might have on each other, it was vital in establishing parentage and for the protection of offspring.

A civil partnership between two homosexual people is fully adequate to protect their mutual rights without destroying the true meaning of the institution of marriage by a society legally allowing homosexuals to marry as if they were normal.

Any behavior can be legalized. Making it legal for people to represent themselves as horses or frogs doesn’t make it real. They can never actually be a horse or frog, it’s a fantasy, but any fantasy can be legalized. Right now, men are being legally accepted as being women after being born male, and vice versa and we are all expected to act as if those men really are women now simply because they say so.

Does anyone see any difference between this insanity and homosexual marriages? Because I don’t.

BUTTERNUT SQUASH. There’s lots of big, fat butternut winter squash in my garden and checking out the Weekly Wednesday Sale at the local Mega Grocery store, I took a look at their squash price for Butternut squash. $2.50 a pound.  Wow. For a pound of squash. This was never why I garden, I do it for the high quality of food that I get from doing it compared to the cardboard nutrition-free crap the stores all sell, but at $2.50 a pound for squash, $3 a pound for tasteless, rubbery tomatoes, gardening becomes more than eating healthy, it can be economic survival too.

I grow butternut and acorn squashes for Fall-Winter eating, yellow squash for summer, cucumbers for salads, snacks and pickling, lettuce for salads and sandwiches, beefsteak and cherry tomatoes, beets, radishes, cilantro, bunch onions sometimes, and figs, apricots and grapes. No bug sprays or chemical fertilizers.

Maybe gardening is more than that, even. It feels good to provide for myself, to directly feed myself from the Earth. It’s fulfilling.

The US is releasing, under an Emergency Powers law, 60,000 one-ton bombs to Israel, 20,000 of them being bunker buster types, penetrator bombs, in preparation of an attack on Pickaxe Mountain where the Iranians have been installing lots of uranium purifying centrifuges deep down under 300 feet of solid granite.

The plan is to drill a hole down into the mountain with successive precision strikes of the one-ton penetrator bombs until the hole is deep enough for the US to drop one or more massive, 15 ton penetrator bombs into, to finish the job of collapsing the underground nuclear installation.

Israel stores thousands of different types of bombs along with other munitions for use by the US, which can be quickly released to Israel to use if needed, and it looks like the bombing of Iran will soon resume. It may be confined to destroying the Pickaxe Mountain complex, but may also be a wider campaign to force an end to the regime. Look for it to start soon, however it goes.

They finally got the message, that the USA isn’t going to pay this bill. France has announced that they’re sending “Defensive troops and defense systems to Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea port city Yanbu to secure the city’s energy facilities from Houthi attacks”. “We are going to send military resources, that is to say, soldiers, radar systems and defense systems, to protect this site – not to get us involved in any conflicts, but to protect this site,” Macron told French media Thursday.”  France is joining the United Kingdom, Italy, Greece and others already there defending Europe’s oil supply, since the US has pointedly declined the Saudi’s repeated requests to defend them.

The French have no desire to involve themselves in a fight with Iran but they’re stuck without a supply of energy to heat their homes this coming winter unless they step up and act to protect it. The USA is no longer going to sacrifice our soldiers and treasure to do what France and the rest of Europe should be doing for themselves.

Because Putin won’t quit, Russia’s oil refineries are being destroyed by Ukrainian drones while Saudi Arabia’s refineries are being attacked by Houthi missiles and Iran’s drones. You can pump all the oil out of the ground that you want to, but it can’t be used unless you can refine it and it’s for damn sure that Western Europe has zero interest in defending Russian refineries.

Last night I watched a couple episodes of “World’s Worst Neighbor”, and while I have to admit that they were worse than Mr. B. Riggs who was my neighbor for ten years, they weren’t worse by much.

The neighbor in his place  now is a far different sort, he’s a rather stupid fellow who thinks he’s a clever con artist. He does have a definite work ethic, to his credit, stays busy around his place doing repairs and steadily adding more and more doodads and trinkets to adorn his home and grounds, literally to a fault, with the little windmills, dry birdbaths, wind chimes, things that light up at night and so forth.

It’s the con artist part that makes me avoid him. It’s okay to gaudy up your home in hopes of gaining attention, some of us have that need, it’s what you do once you have someone’s attention that matters. This is the same person who tried to just walk into my home uninvited and painted my cedar fence white that’s entirely on my property and faces his, without asking. Among a variety of lesser intrusive and disrespectful offenses.

Yesterday afternoon, on driving back from the short trip to the post office, he came walking up wanting to show me something in his back yard that “might concern me”, and what it is, is where the people who did the rehab on his home in the aftermath of Mr. Riggs ownership, had jack-hammered away about 16 feet length of the retaining wall that held back the earthen 4 foot high cliff created when his parcel was made level on our sloping hillside by bulldozing the earth away where our property lines meet.

The rest of that 50 year old retaining wall is in bad shape as it is, but still has perhaps 15 or 20 years to go before it collapses, as did the portion that was removed. Now here’s the thing: Two things, actually. The first is that where the wall was removed is a newly replaced 50 foot tall power pole, sunk 7 feet into the earth, the cliff is only 3 feet away from it, is 4 feet high and is eroding now, endangering the stability of that power pole.

The other thing is that this retaining wall, built on our mutual property line, is there because the developer created that cliff to level the lower parcel, and by law the owner of the lower parcel is fully liable for the maintenance of that wall because it was created for the improvement of his property, not mine.

So back to John the new neighbor showing me how he’s attempting to deal with the erosion by cementing 4 by 4 wood posts in the ground to brace up a couple sheets of 1/2 inch cheap chipboard, and he’s filling the 4 foot deep gap between them and the cliff with dirt, leaving about a foot width of walkway alongside his garage.

I pointed out the folly of this feeble construction and told him he needed to build a real wall with concrete blocks and rebar and that’s when the con finally appeared. “Aren’t you concerned? What do you think? Do you think this will work? Doing this is expensive, those concrete blocks are expensive, I don’t have the money, what would you do about this” and so on.

Wishing  him Good Luck on his project, I went home. This is all a good thing, really. Don’t get me wrong, this is no problem for me, just the opposite, it’s More Entertainment. There’s a lot of liability here, and none of it is mine.  Now I’ll be watching closely when our winter rains come, to see how his chipboard holds up. One phone call to the power company will have an agent out here inspecting the mess if things start looking bad and the pole is endangered, the power company will fix the problem and hang a big fat lien on his property title and I’ll have a nice new section of retaining wall.