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1. https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/06/27/tech-executives-commissioned-senior-army-officers-wont-recuse-themselves-dod-business-dealings.html

   1. Yup. Welcome to the continuing coup.

2. Does anyone know if you really have to provide your drivers license to create/access your Social Security account? I’m not a fan of sharing biometric data.

   https://www.login.gov/policy/

   1. Social Security is now requiring Login.gov or ID.me to set up or access ssa.gov online. In my case SSA would not let me set up an online account because my ssn had been compromised somehow years ago. Your call as to whether providing info to those services is a good idea. Login.gov seems to be needed for most Federal sites now and ID.me for military related sites. Both strike me as risky.

      It is still possible to get things done on the phone with our local office but the last interaction in June (after being put on hold for more than 30 minutes, not the prior norm) included the ironic statement: “that transaction has to be processed by hand and we are shorthanded now.”

      1. Out of curiosity I called SS and was left on hold for 4.5 hours, before I eventually hung up. There is nobody there.

         1. You were lucky not to get a “curtsy hang up” commonly done to callers who wait more then 2 hours on an IRS call. This sledge is getting much worse. Bots requiring a complete confirmation of the collar before considering if they can be transferred to a human for actual customer service.

         2. That’s been my experience with the national number. Forget about getting a human on the line. Our local office still answers the phone, more slowly than before now.

            1. Thank you for your replies… I might try going in person. I know from other friends that going to these offices can be a bit of a nightmare.

   2. My guess. Go to a local office to bypass the online thing. If accessing online, it appears there are not many options.

3. HOW DO WE KNOW IF THE NEW METERS BEING INSTALLED ARE “SMART METERS”…WHERE TO FIND OUT THE DISADVANTAGES OF “SMART METERS”?

   1. Buy a RF/EMF meter.
      https://emfacademy.com/best-emf-meters-and-detectors/

      Smart meters are a critical element of the control grid.

      1. THANK YOU!

         1. If you have a smart meter, opt out

            1. I am constantly told no opt out option in Hardeman County. So will have to go off grid at some point. Right now my time in US has me on the road most of the time.

4. Top selling historical and science fiction titles from the annual “Based Book Sale”

   https://basedbooksale.substack.com/p/the-2025-summer-based-book-sale-after

   1. Casting culture forward and backward in time!

      Rafael Sabatini’s genre-defining Captain Blood took top honors. Sabatini’s tale of a doctor wrongly accused of treason and sold into slavery, only to escape and embark on a career of piracy was inspired by the real-life career of Henry Morgon. “The deeds of Captain Blood were misunderstood, forgotten, or deliberately confused with those of less honorable men like Morgan,” insisted Sabatini, “and this confusion of identities or misreporting of history is what the book sets out to correct.”

      John C. Wright took second place with his newly reissued The Iron Chamber of Memory: “an eerie, suspenseful, romantic fantasy in the mood of C. S. Lewis and Charles Williams.. I never had an idea more beautiful or haunting than The Iron Chamber of Memory. It is a fairy tale for adults, a theological meditation, a time travel story, a ghost story, and a story about love and honor and remembering what you should not forget.”

      P.S. it would be nice to have “blockquote” and “italic” formatting options from the old comments editor.

      1. Terrific book and movie, if anyone is looking for a well costumed, acted, action flick, “Captain Blood” (1935) has Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Lionel Atwill, Basil Rathbone. Splendid cast. I’ll have to check out the other reference, “The Iron Chamber of Memory.”

5. On people calling Chat GTP he or she – There a couple of good video on the Eliza Effect on how people anthropomorphize AI chats going back to early ones in the 1960s. The second part goes far beyond into the some of the other bad effects of current AI.

   https://youtu.be/pel0FntPSbU

   Second part
   https://youtu.be/EG0LvSPGiSo

6. Appreciate the first story, and in particular that each litigation will be time consuming and costly. Each litigation can slowly chip away at what started off as stout statute. e.g. equal pay (1963) may sound like it would be easy enough to find a male doing the same duties with higher compensation as a comparable. But only a few percent of the total cases filed are actually successful and back pay is now off the table, a case was decided and that eroded the intent of the statute.
   SITREP 6/29/25 is much more impressive than the quick review. I can’t remember if it was here or The Duran (Rumble) that referenced beltway bandits egging on the deep state to eliminate the population of Ukraine. It’s just astonishing that the Zelinsky is willing to continue in an obviously loosing position. Some Mennonites I know were giving reports in a Sunday evening service late spring, stating males 15 to 65 were hiding to avoid instant conscription. As an aside, regarding Zelinsky’s complaints that the flow of weapons has stopped. The deliveries are whatever is on hand. Other analysts have been talking about how production capabilities don’t exist to mass produce armaments. But to your point, yes a lot of components are imported in defense but this isn’t just in the military industrial complex; the problem crosses into other industries.

7. Catherine, when you say they need to extend the dollar for 10 to 15 years…why only 10 or 15 years? Why not longer? Is it because they need it to last until they get the digital control grid into place? And when you say “dollar syndicate”, does that include the central banks who ultimately control the dollar syndicate? I’m always curious about whether the various central banks all have the same goal or if they are fighting among themselves for power. Thank you!

   1. I would say another 10 to 15 years because by then they will need a new trick. If they have a 100% global control grid in place, that could be it. But could be something else. All comes back to who has the biggest gun and where all the disappearing money is going. Where and who are the breakaways?

      1. I’m assuming where the money went and who has the biggest gun probably isn’t a country but someone else. If the dollar syndicate had control of an advanced weaponry, wouldn’t they have used it in the Ukraine war? On another topic, the US population seems to face more poisoning than other countries. The great poisoning started in the mid nineties, around the same time that Australia and the UK banned guns. But the US was unsuccessful in banning guns then. I wonder if the fact that Americans didn’t relinquish their guns is part of the reason the poisoning is stronger here.

         1. James:
            That is a very astute observation. Worth thinking about that one. I have always assumed it was to balance the retirement obligations and reduce the ability of the population to organize effectively to protect their rights.
            Catherine

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