I've lived most of my long life asleep. I was 8 years old when JFK was assassinated. It wasn't until I was in my 30s that I even gave it a second thought (well, maybe a "first thought" a decade before any serious consideration). I was 9 days shy of 14 when man allegedly made a giant leap on the moon — didn't give it a second thought — it was real, of course.

I was nearly drafted to go fight the "just" war in Vietnam and lived through countless world events I was not even aware of.

Events that involved false flags, CIA manipulation, and God knows what else. I lived through all of this without giving any of it even an eye twitch — it certainly was all that I had been told, nothing more. It was business as usual. Most, if not all, of it did not directly affect me or my ability to eat, work, play, and live my life in relative comfort.

I finally got the big kick in the butt when Covid came along, and as I slowly fully awakened, I realized that everything that passed me by in my life that I had shoe-horned into believing was normal was anything but normal. Now, don't get me wrong, I think I have always been a teeny-weeny bit awake. I scratched my head a lot and was always interested in the alternative view of things.

But these understandings were always peripheral to me.

The main thrust of life was generally good, people could be trusted, government may be whacky at times, but in general was benevolent, and trying very hard to be decent. The hideously ugly, weird, or deceitful stuff were the anomalies, not the norm.

I think 9-11 really started the bottom to drop out for me, but I still had not lost faith in the foundation of "rightness" in the world. But the whole thing fell apart once Covid started its rampage of false rhetoric and deceitful lies. Now I've made full circle where nothing at all is trusted, it is pretty much all bad, ugly, and evil. It is difficult to convince me there is even one decent person in power in the world.

Where does that leave me (us)? That is a difficult question to answer. I do know we have it pretty good in the opulent West — the "free and brave" North America. We've had it that way for quite some time, and if you are not too discerning when you look, you can live a pretty carefree life even though the maggots are right below the surface gnawing away.

If the world's migrant population could be counted as a single country, it would be the fourth largest country.

One summer evening, the unrelenting sun over Niger refused to dip below the horizon. I sought out some shade with three anxious men in Touba au paradis, a small quiet restaurant in Agadez. These three Nigerians had tried to make the crossing at Assamaka, to our north, into Algeria, but found the border barred. They hoped their final destination would be Europe across the Mediterranean Sea, but first they had to make it into Algeria, and then across the remarkable Sahara Desert. By the time I met them, none of these crossings were possible.

Algeria had closed the border, and the town of Assamaka had become overrun by desperate people who did not want to retreat but could not go forward. These men told me that they fled from Nigeria not because of any physical threat, but simply because they could not make a living in their hometown. High inflation and unemployment made the situation in Nigeria impossible.

'How could we remain at home', they said, 'when we became a burden on our families even after we had finished school?'. Three educated Nigerian men, desperate to earn a living, unable to make one at home, decided against their own wishes to make a potentially fatal journey in search of a way to live with dignity.

Nuclear-powered USS New Jersey was purpose-built to accommodate women.

USS New Jersey, a Virginia-class fast-attack submarine designed from the keel up to accommodate both male and female crew members has entered service with the US Navy.

The silent service has been men-only since its inception in the early 1900s, until the Pentagon began allowing women on board subs in 2010, prompting retrofits to address bathroom issues and lack of privacy.

Some 4,000 people attended the commissioning ceremony for SSN 796 at Naval Weapons Station Earle in Middletown, New Jersey on Saturday. Commander Steve Halle, the captain of the New Jersey, called it:

"A truly historic moment. Today, we commissioned our ship, and she is the fastest, most advanced, fully integrated fast-attack to date. Our superior professionalism is enhanced by our crew integration and our diversity."

According to Vice-Admiral Robert Gaucher, commander of Submarine Force Atlantic, the service is now "fully gender-integrated" and all future nuclear-powered submarines, including the new Columbia-class, will be designed with gender-neutral accommodations.

Google's publisher ad tech was only as strong as the advertisers those publishers got access to — but those publishers knew they couldn't get them anywhere else.

In internal Google documents released on Day 7 of the United States vs. Google trial Tuesday, company employees worried that if Google's ad exchange for publishers, AdX, lost exclusivity to Google's advertisers, "many publishers would terminate their AdX relationship in favor of their preferred vendors."

The memo, which weighed the benefits of opening up ad inventory to third parties, was released in a tranche of documents introduced Tuesday, and reinforced the DOJ's argument that Google unfairly tied its two ad-tech businesses together to maintain a monopoly on the industry.

This revised article is being sent out today since many of believe it is critical to bring public awareness to the three year anniversary of Biden's abhorrent vaccine mandates.

How Biden's Mandates Devastated America and His Presidency

Recently, a rather extraordinary turn of events happened. The sitting president was forced to drop out of his re-election campaign because his cognitive impairment was undeniably exposed to the country through a presidential debate and his party then turned against him. I and many others hold the opinion that over the last 3 years, Biden experienced cognitive and neurological decline, that this decline perfectly paralleled his zealous endorsement of the COVID vaccines, and that causality can be established since that same decline has been seen in many others following COVID vaccination (especially older adults with pre-existing cognitive impairment).

On 9/9/21, Biden gave one of the most divisive speeches in American history. There he announced his illegal workforce mandate (which was later struck down by the Supreme Court), repeated a series of known lies about the COVID vaccine and repeatedly attempted to incite hatred against the unvaccinated. Since the entire conference was 27 minutes long (which made it too long to watch), I spent a while trimming it down to the key points. The primary reason I made this article was to highlight this video, so please consider watching it (and take note of how much more lucid and coherent he was just three years ago).

Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has faced a series of conflicts of interests on key issues in his state, including with the ongoing Haitian migrant crisis affecting Springfield.

DeWine recently pledged support to Springfield to assist with the influx in Haitian migrants, according to Spectrum News. Over a period of years, DeWine and his wife have developed extensive ties to a charity in Haiti.

The charity was established in honor of Becky DeWine, their daughter who died in a car accident. The DeWine Family Foundation Inc. gave a $400,000 grant to the group "Hands Together" to fund a school in Haiti, according to the foundation's 990 form that was filed in 2023.

Kuwait is mandating a biometric registration process for citizens and expatriates. Those who fail to register their fingerprints by the set deadlines will face consequences such as suspended government services and frozen bank accounts.

It is claimed that the reasons for enforcing the registration of digital biometrics are to enhance security and address dual nationality issues. However, this initiative aligns with global trends in biometrics and the sharing of our data with selected agencies.

It's no coincidence that at the same time, the United Nations is pushing for a Global Digital Compact to be adopted by 193 countries so it can play a significant role in the global governance of artificial intelligence, the Internet, digital public goods and digital infrastructure.

Kuwait is preparing to suspend government services for people who fail to register their fingerprints by the set deadlines, 30 September 2024, for Kuwaitis and 30 December 2024, for expatriates

Now, testosterone decline is not only acknowledged by the Democrat Party; it's to be welcomed. It's essential to forging their new America.

At last month's Democratic National Convention, men lined up to have themselves sterilized outside the conference center. You probably heard. So-called "reproductive rights" were one of the key issues of the Convention, which also had a giant inflatable IUD stationed close to the entrance, just in case attendees were in any doubt.

Planned Parenthood took an RV to the Convention and set up a mobile clinic in a parking lot nearby. On Monday, the first day of proceedings, it offered free vasectomies, and then abortions the next day.

Luis Ayala was one of ten men who had himself sterilized that Monday. "Ayala is 28 and works as an electrician," NPR explained. "His wife saw a social media post about a free reproductive health clinic Planned Parenthood was sponsoring in Chicago during the Democratic convention and suggested that he sign up."

I know we — and by "we," I mean "I" — like to say the leftist vision of politics is one of emasculation, but really, it's a bit on the nose, isn't it? Vasectomies at the Democratic National Convention — really!?

We know it's coming. One day, sometime there will be a skyscraper inferno started by an EV or a scooter and made so much worse because there were other EV's in the basement carpark.

At the moment companies are fined $100,000 in Australia for failing to include high fire danger warning labels on kids beach towels, but it's no problem if children sleep in a tower above a carpark full of EVs.

But after a spate of fires in China, Hotels there are starting to ask customers with EVs to park in open areas outside the building.

China bans electric vehicles from underground carparks

by Jamie Seidel, News.com

... Chinese hotels and property managers have begun to ban all electric vehicles - scooters, e-bikes, family cars or commercial vans - from their undercroft car parks.

"Hotels and other buildings in Hangzhou, Ningbo, Xiaoshan and other places in Zhejiang have banned electric vehicles from entering underground garages for safety reasons, sparking heated discussions," Chinese online dissident "Mr Li is not your teacher" reported in a post to X (which is banned in China) in September.

Local news reports that property owners were spurred into action after 11 intense battery fires in Zhejiang's capital, Hangzhou, in May of this year.

"Based on the characteristics of electric vehicle fires and our hotel's firefighting capabilities, we think it safer not to allow them into the underground garage," RFA quotes one five-star hotel owner as stating.

"A lot of basement parking lots are designed with low ceilings, meaning that fire trucks can't get inside."

Some will point to studies that claim gas powered cars catch fire 20 or 30 times as often, but old cars are riskier and these studies don't appear to control for age. (Can anyone find one that does?) And if one EV sets fire to 1,200 cars, hypothetically, say, at an airport terminal, we have to wonder whether the incident adds more "fire deaths" to the petrol car scorecard rather than the EV tally at the Department of Motor Vehicles.

This is really exciting. It seemed like it worked and it worked quite broadly...'

Might the New World Order use biased, pre-manipulated artificial intelligence programs to try to "deprogram" those with unpopular opinions by persuading them that their logic does not compute?

A recent study on that subject underwritten by the John Templeton Foundation might give so-called conspiracy theorists one more thing to be paranoid about, according to Popular Science.

Critics have already sounded the alarm that leftist radicals in Silicon Valley and elsewhere were manipulating the algorithms used to train AI so that it automatically defaulted to anti-conservative biases.

The next step may be programming any verboten viewpoints into the realm of "conspiracy theory," then having powerful computers challenge human users to a battle of logic that inevitably is stacked against them with cherrypicked data.