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1. Hi Catherine,

   I’m trying to get away from screen time and I’m considering getting a “dumb” phone for work to help me with this. I am 37 years old and I’m a real estate agent so I use my phone and computer all the time for work. After you mentioned the 109 days per year of screen time, I decided to look at how much screen time I have in my life (the iPhone tracks this metric). Turns out I have about 100 days of screen time based on my weekly average. Much of that “screen time” was music and podcasts that I listen to while driving or going to sleep at night. But regardless, I want to limit my phone use. I can easily eliminate social media screen time and reduce my texting/phone calls outside of work. But one of the main functions I use my smart phone for is to learn by listening to Solari and other podcasts. Any recommendations on how to reduce screen time, reduce EMF poisoning, but still having access to easily listen to Solari and other resources?

   1. I arrived at the same conclusion and used my “smart” phone for similar purposes – podcasts, Money & Markets and my favorite classical radio station while driving.

      I got my dumb phone about 6 months ago – went with the Light Phone https://www.thelightphone.com/

      It’s a bit clunky but functional for talk/text. Currently, I use it when I want/need to unplug from business – mainly on weekends. I also only gave the number to a very few limited family members.

      Trying to navigate one foot in and one foot out of the matrix

      1. Sad to report my Lightphone-II failed this morning. Won’t power up. Turns out, there are many more e-ink minimal phones out, that were not out when I purchased the Lightphone. The new offerings are nicer. Here is one I am considering. I like the manual on/off button for the radio. https://mudita.com/products/phones/mudita-kompakt/

         My Lightphone was off 90% of the time. But I might turn the radio on and off 40 times a day, check message, text, then off again. Waking up the phone then navigating to airplane mode will be much easier with a manual on/off.

      2. James, I did the same. I use a Lightphone-II. NO blue light. Clunky but works and has a full keyboard for texting and offers a hotspot. I don’t leave the phone on. I turn it on 5-10 times a day to check messages, text. I am an auctioneer in middle Tennessee. The auction service uses a app called Slack for internal communications. Since you can not access email, or the internet with the Lightphone, I use an ipad I keep in my briefcase I access using the Lightphone hotspot. A few times a day I check email, Slack, then power off.

         The Lightphone navigation works good. It is not a nice colorful map, but it works. The directory on the Lightphone is good also. Nothing fancy, but if you are looking for the nearest coffee shop or gas station, it will find it for you and map your way.

         The lightphone is almost perfect. It broke the addiction to the iphone. The Lightphone runs much cooler (emf) than the iphone. The Lightphone does not hurt my hands when using it.
         The Lightphone broke the addiction, the sense of need everyone has for these dangerous (i think, military devices) I use the phone for utility only. No mindless browsing, no games, no meaningless notifications.

         Up until about 6 years ago, I lived with my iphone. I sat at a desk with a bluetooth earpiece, a bluetooth keyboard, a bluetooth mouse, imac with wifi, a wifi modem just 20 feet away… I had headaches all the times.

         When we wired the house for internet, turned off the cells phones, stopped using bluetooth, our headaches went away. Haven’t had one since, unless I spend a day in working in emf Nashville.

         The other thing I noticed is my body is easier to manage without these devices. I don’t have trouble managing my weight like before. Jack Kruse has been telling us these things are screwing up our bodies and making us sick and fat. I think he is right.

         The most dangerous thing we do in this world is carry a cell phone listening targeting device that makes us fat and sick. We will never climb out of this mess if everyone is carry a smartphone. Toss the smartphones and blind the bastards.

         1. Glad to hear you feel better Ron!

            I need to take my Lightphone use to the next level and get the map functionality – for coffee shops, restaurants and gas stations. I have a good old paper atlas I keep in my truck for “maps”.

   2. What a great idea. Will ponder this.

2. What do you think of this? https://www.goldback.com

   1. High premium, easy to digitize. Prefer coins!

3. 1. Unfortunately I see states with ‘defunded’ police cities mandating cash as a bit of a setup. Businesses can not deposit cash after hours, and so become targets for robberies late at night. Knowing New York City, it might also be a tax fraud ‘gotcha’ where NYC tax officials ‘estimate’ the percentage income you make in cash and charge you tax for it, reported or not.

   2. on other news, it is not only people addicted to big pharma – I just saw the second ‘lost dog’ ad with the note ‘bring him home, he needs his meds!’

   3. Catherine was right again! The USGov is going for the daily double: blow up a ship in a false flag AND save the cost of having to decommission it:

   (Google Search writes):”The USS Nimitz (CVN 68), which recently sailed through the Singapore Strait bound for the Indian Ocean, is expected to be decommissioned in 2026. This deployment is anticipated to be its last.
   More information:

   The Nimitz, commissioned in 1975, is the oldest aircraft carrier in the U.S. Navy and in the world.
   It is being redirected to the Middle East, possibly ahead of schedule, to bolster the U.S. presence there amid heightened tensions.
   While initially scheduled for decommissioning in 2025, that date was reportedly extended to May 2026 due to delays in the commissioning of new Ford-class carriers.
   Upon the completion of its current deployment, the Nimitz is scheduled to relocate to Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia, in preparation for decommissioning, which involves a multi-year process of deactivating and dismantling its nuclear reactors.
   The Nimitz’s final deployment comes as the U.S. Navy faces challenges maintaining an 11-carrier fleet amidst construction delays and aging warships.”

4. ‘How the ICE Raids and Crackdowns on Anti-Genocide Speech Are A Threat to All American Workers’: https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/06/ice-raids-and-crackdowns-on-anti-genocide-speech-are-a-threat-to-all-workers.html

   “While militarized ICE agents sweeping into communities across the country might appease some of Trump’s MAGA supporters and provide the illusion of doing something about the exploitation of foreign workers, a closer look shows that it is part of a coordinated attack on all of labor.

   How so? Let’s start with Donald himself and go from there.

   Trump’s businesses rely on and continue to seek H-2B non-agricultural “guest” workers. A crucial difference between the H-2B and H-2A—covering agricultural workers—and individuals who worked in the US under temporary protected status or humanitarian parole is that the latter two categories didn’t have their ability to stay in the country legally tied to their work.

   That made them less exploitable. They were free to change jobs and unionize.

   Guest workers, on the other hand, are loved by Trump and many employers because they are basically indentured servants. Even the Departments of Labor and Homeland Security “acknowledge that H-2B workers face structural disincentives to reporting or leaving abusive conditions, and often lack power to exercise their rights in the face of exploitative employment situations.”

5. The Babylon Bee – known for outstanding “satire” had a brilliant phrase to describe crypto: “magic computer coins”

   “”See, I could get a bunch of gold or silver coins, but they are really heavy. And then I would probably need to get a safe or something, I guess,” he continued. “On the other hand, I could put my money into these magic computer coins everyone is telling me exist. I have no idea how they work or where to get them, and they’re invisible, but they’re apparently really cool.””

   https://babylonbee.com/news/libertarian-torn-between-investing-in-shiny-rocks-or-magic-computer-coins

6. Why bother is right. When people are offered salaries and hourly rates that were starting salaries 30 years ago that came with benefits it doesn’t pay. Plus, they’re asking people to work on contracts for 7 months in a hybrid position in a city in which they don’t reside with no expense reimbursement. Are they supposed to have less than half the pay but double the expenses if they own homes? Not to mention inflation. The math just doesn’t add up. Employers have to ask themselves if they would operate a business at a loss. They wouldn’t. So neither can the Western worker. And it’s not just the US. This is orchestrated against what were 1st world nations, most of them Western. Who benefits? .
   Plus, no one talks about all of this is done to circumvent labor laws. ICE is going after illegal immigrants but no one is doing anything about the employers. That’s an issue everyone conveniently avoids. It’s a 2-tier economy. Been that way for at least 35 years.

7. I was in Restaurant Depot this week buying fish. They had a good price on wild caught filet of sole from the pristine waters of Alaska. Turn the box over and…”Product of China”. The same for wild caught cod filets caught in the pristine waters of the north Atlantic. We did manage to get some nice wild caught frozen hake filets, caught and processed in Chile, which is OK with us. Farmed shellfish is generally good because they don’t feed them, just maintain the strings or crates to minimize labor in harvest, as long as it comes from a country that is reasonably trustworthy and raised in reasonably clean waters. Chile, Canada and New Zealand are big in this area of aquaculture.

   If flying to Europe with a banana make sure that the curvature does not deviate from from EU standards or they might Reiner Fulmich/David Irving you.

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