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My name is ben, and as you can see, I like to write. Toss me anything and I'm sure I can easily put it into writing. I write for many different reasons: planning, helping, documenting, venting, etc. Writing is an excellent form of connection, and it's among the best ways to share anything you know to everyone and learn from other people on the way. Some of my favored topics contain politics, home repairs, web marketing, individual finance, the human body and why I was never as gifted as Michael Jackson. I write to live, and I live to write. Take pleasure in my blog.
Latest News
- Putin tells the truth: Russia is fighting alone against entire West
- Candace Owens: Ukraine conflict is 'ethnic cleansing' of Russian speakers
- Trump administration plans major NATO drawdown of U.S. jets, tankers, bombers and warships in Europe
- US publishes docs on 'dangerous' Ukrainian biolabs
- Eurasia's EU dream now comes with an anti-Russian price tag
- US Justice Department subpoenas major banks over alleged 'debanking,' source says
- Ron Paul: We should not 'integrate' our military with any foreign nation!
- Intense rains cause severe flooding in San Pedro Sula, Honduras
- Puffy Putin peril: The West's latest attempt to scare itself
- Why the Israeli real-estate expo in London must be cancelled
- Lightning strike kills shepherd and 13 goats in Maharashtra, India
- Child killed in lioness attack in Gujarat, India - 6th such attack in the state in 7 months
- Rare twin waterspouts filmed off coast of Guangdong Province, China
- Severe rain and hailstorm causes chaos in Saitama Prefecture, Japan
- Trump releases THIRD tranche of UFO files revealing shape-shifting orbs over the US and CIA reports hidden for decades
- UFO over Zimbabwe in summer 2008 had CIA on 'high alert,' new files reveal
- Raising girls who won't be bullied off the starting line
- Scientist set clocks made from an atomic nucleus running for the first time
- UK cops admit DEI training pressured them to ignore dying white teen Henry Nowak
- If only . . . . most Israelis oppose Netanyahu's re-election,Trump says PM 'may quit politics'
- Putin tells the truth: Russia is fighting alone against entire West
- Trump administration plans major NATO drawdown of U.S. jets, tankers, bombers and warships in Europe
- US publishes docs on 'dangerous' Ukrainian biolabs
- Eurasia's EU dream now comes with an anti-Russian price tag
- US Justice Department subpoenas major banks over alleged 'debanking,' source says
- Puffy Putin peril: The West's latest attempt to scare itself
- If only . . . . most Israelis oppose Netanyahu's re-election,Trump says PM 'may quit politics'
- Clinton-appointed Fed judge bars Texas AG Paxton's lawsuit against ActBlue
- Europe's recent peace overtures are war by other means
- Tulsi Gabbard announces she's releasing evidence of US funding to over 120 biolabs in over 30 countries for Gain of Function research
- Behind the Headlines: Is Trump Netanyahu's real enemy?
- Trump calls off 'scheduled' bombardment of Iran
- Senate wants to force US to share sensitive intel with Israel
- DOJ ramps up probe into big banks for alleged "debanking" of clients
- Shady ActBlue CEO pled the Fifth 20 TIMES in just one hour during House panel hearing
- War crime: US 'precision strikes' cut water access to 20,000 people in southern Iran
- Putin powerfully rebuffed the hawks who want him to attack NATO
- Ground attack on Iran and the role of Kurdish militia
- Israel's intelligence overreach is becoming a problem for everyone
- US begins aother round of attacks on Iran
- Candace Owens: Ukraine conflict is 'ethnic cleansing' of Russian speakers
- Ron Paul: We should not 'integrate' our military with any foreign nation!
- Why the Israeli real-estate expo in London must be cancelled
- UK cops admit DEI training pressured them to ignore dying white teen Henry Nowak
- China is learning to use less oil—and that's a bigger deal than it sounds
- California gets 80% of all federal cash for illegal immigrant families: report
- DARPA 'MASCAL' to simulate a mass casualty event
- Inflation: It's finally hitting the fan
- Excellent idea: USPS proposes halting mail ballot delivery in states that refuse voter roll verification
- A geopolitical World Cup 2026
- Quick Take...The (Well-Timed) Belfast Riots
- Belfast ablaze: Anti-Immigration protests sweep Northern Ireland following attempted beheading by Sudanese migrant
- On the murder of Henry Nowak & the poverty of the 'Far-Right' explanation
- Best of the Web: AI data centers: The real reason they're going up everywhere
- 'People will be heard': Canada launches inquiry into COVID vaccine injuries
- Thousands protest in Albania after PM says pristine land 'belongs' to Kushner-backed group
- Flesh-eating screwworm detected In Texas, threatening already-strained U.S. cattle herd
- We are being warned that a "Godzilla El Niño" could absolutely devastate global food production
- Rashida Tlaib forces Democrats to go on the record on Israeli aggression
- California questions piling up fast: Pratt suddenly loses second place in LA mayoral race
- New study links Göbekli Tepe's vulture stone to Europe's Trypillia culture
- Archaeologists excavating a Spanish monastery have identified the remains of a 14th-century queen
- Study details epic transportation of Stonehenge stone across ancient Britain
- Ancient mega-structure discovered in Romania
- Ancient DNA reveals patchwork of families more than 5,000 years ago
- Ancient Greek theatre mask discovered in Illyrian sanctuary cave
- Were the deceased cremated already in the Stone Age? The first signs of human cremation date back 100,000 years
- Study reveals one of world's first cities prospered as wealth-gap shrank
- Neanderthal molar from Siberia points to possible dental treatment 59,000 years ago
- There is a long history of members of Congress calling out Israel's nuclear arsenal. It is now time to take action
- Did you know the US and Israel helped create Iran's nuclear project? Here's the story
- 260 Monumental tombs older than Egypt's pyramids discovered in the Sahara
- Hall of Records theories explode as CIA doc mentioning 'temple under Sphinx' found
- Prehistoric discovery in North America older than Egypt's Great Pyramid rewrites human history
- CIA Ran MK-Ultra Experiments on Korean Prisoners of War in US Custody, Declassified Docs Confirm
- On humanity's earliest attempts to make a home
- 13-year-old boy finds ancient Greek bronze coin in a Berlin field
- A mysterious 4000-year-old 'lost' writing system has finally been decoded, in a modern 'Rosetta Stone' breakthrough
- New discoveries at 12,000-year-old Karahantepe: Human statues, animal carvings, and surprising diet uncovered
- 5 ways ancient Persia has shaped our modern world
- Scientist set clocks made from an atomic nucleus running for the first time
- Researchers accidentally discovered strange, hidden rule of human behavior
- Bots now generate more web traffic than humans - Cloudflare
- Vampire Planet: Data centers, far bigger disasters than you even thought
- Scientists have found a surprisingly simple way to create powerful quantum states
- How to stop a killer asteroid
- Fossil fishes buried in the desert reveal a missing chapter in marine history
- NASA pronounces Mars orbiter MAVEN dead
- New catalyst strategy boosts key battery and fuel-cell reaction from 12% to 52%
- Investigation launched into Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket explosion
- Listening to Sun's 'heart' hints our star could be changing
- The Marxist in the machine
- There's a new T. rex from the dinosaur age — and it ruled the seas with a skull-crushing bite
- Ice core discovery finds volcanic eruptions could cause greater global disruption than previously thought
- Japanese genome study reveals traces of Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA
- The first atomic bomb test in 1945 created an entirely new material
- Mount St. Helens: the eruption that changed the U.S. in 1980 has an unexpected "culprit"... and no, it is not a volcano (it is animals, and the story is surreal)
- AI Bots Placed In Virtual Town For 2 Weeks Go Apesh*t, Prompting Concerns
- The lines we thought machines wouldn't cross
- Stardust trapped in Antarctic ice reveals tens of thousands of years of solar system's past
- Intense rains cause severe flooding in San Pedro Sula, Honduras
- Lightning strike kills shepherd and 13 goats in Maharashtra, India
- Child killed in lioness attack in Gujarat, India - 6th such attack in the state in 7 months
- Rare twin waterspouts filmed off coast of Guangdong Province, China
- Severe rain and hailstorm causes chaos in Saitama Prefecture, Japan
- June Snow returns to the Alps; Oregon's June frost
- Indonesia raises alert levels as 3 volcanoes erupt simultaneously
- Lightning strike kills 3, injures 5 in Chhattisgarh,India
- Three killed in landslide after heavy rains in northern Vietnam
- Sinkhole 20 feet wide and 17 feet deep opens up on airport runway in Blountville, Tennessee
- Torrential hailstorm paralyzes Armenia's Gyumri, ice layers reach 1.5 meters
- SOTT Focus: SOTT Earth Changes Summary - May 2026: Extreme Weather, Planetary Upheaval, Meteor Fireballs
- Indonesia's Mount Lewotobi Laki-laki erupts again, residents warned
- Rural Manitoba communities without power and clean water after storm induced floods
- Over 8 inches of summer rain causes extreme flash flooding in Lanesville, Indiana
- June snow falls in Scotland as UK hit by unsettled weather
- Car swallowed by sinkhole after road suddenly collapses in Akron, Ohio
- China: Sudden hailstorm bombards Langfang with large hailstones on June 4
- Shallow earthquake with 6.1 magnitude hits offshore Cuba, shaking buildings in Havana
- Cars swept away and roads collapsed: The aftermath of flooding in western El Salvador following heavy rains
- Meteor fireball over Connecticut, 2 other states and Ontario on June 9
- Meteor fireball over Brazil on June 8
- Meteor fireball over southern Spain on June 6
- Meteor fireball over New Mexico and Colorado on June 5
- Meteor fireball over Italy on June 4
- Meteor fireball over Hong Kong on June 5
- Meteor fireball over France and 5 other countries on June 2
- Meteor fireball over Michigan, 7 other states and Ontario on June 2
- Meteor fireball over Maine, New Brunswick and Québec on June 1
- Meteor fireball over Italy and 2 other countries on May 31
- Best of the Web: Power of meteor fireball explosion over the US on May 30 reached 300 tons of TNT — NASA
- Meteor fireball caught on camera near Popocatépetl volcano in Mexico on May 28
- Meteor fireball over Connecticut and 2 other states on May 28
- Meteor fireball over Germany and the Netherlands on May 27
- Meteor fireball seen in sky across western New York state on May 27
- Meteor fireball over Germany on May 25
- Meteor fireball over Italy and 4 other countries on May 25
- Meteor fireball seen over erupting Mayon Volcano in the Philippines on May 25
- Meteor fireball over Colorado and Wyoming on May 21
- Meteor fireball flashes through clouds as it flies over Sydney Harbour, Australia on May 21
- RFK Jr. responds to "explosion" in tick-borne, WEF-touted Alpha-Gal syndrome
- PEA (Palmitoylethanolamide) as Supplement: Gaining in Popularity, And For Good Reason
- Babies are being given and dying from a vaccine that was created for sexually active adults
- Global mental disorders have nearly doubled since 1990, now affecting 1.2 billion people worldwide
- Tick-Borne Alpha-Gal Syndrome incidence skyrocketed 9,800% in the U.S. since 2013
- Lunatics have taken charge of the asylum: Peer-reviewed paper says genetically engineering ticks to spread meat allergies is "morally obligatory"
- Unregulated wireless 5G rollout under HR 2289 would be catastrophic for human health and the environment
- Hantavirus - A pandemic treaty 'wake up call'?
- New research finds almost all plant-based meat alternatives contain mycotoxins
- Why Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine could work for Hantavirus
- Is this Hantavirus a bioweapon?
- Health insurers and organizations literally bribe pediatricians to give your baby vaccines
- The WHO's Pandemic Agreement fails again (thankfully)
- Inflamed guts: How everyday plastic exposure worsens chronic Inflammatory Bowl Disease (IBD)
- The American medical establishment didn't discover a mental health crisis: It created one
- What is hantavirus, suspected in deaths of three people on cruise ship?
- Flashback Hidden CIA document detailing potential cure for cancer declassified after 60 years
- Flu vaccine no longer mandated for US troops, Hegseth says
- A reckoning is underway at the FDA after report is made on child deaths due to Covid vax
- Ditch the sanitizer and start exercising your immune system
- Raising girls who won't be bullied off the starting line
- Consciousness likely not unique to earthlings, paper says
- Sophrosyne: An ancient Greek virtue that matters more than ever in the age of AI
- Discipline!
- Are World Leaders Possessed? The Ancient Technology of Demonic Transfer
- The Demonization of Men (and everyone else too)
- The importance of inexpert opinion
- France: 19-year-old wakes up from 3-week coma, asks to meet her babies who never existed
- The Noble Savage
- We may be entering a second Axial Age
- Can we really trust our feelings?
- Euthanasia is now 6% of all deaths in the Netherlands; experts urge caution against youths choosing to die
- Fear, time preference, and the distortion of human action
- Managing the hypercurious mind
- Should society help you to die? The EU now has a case to answer
- Believe Anything; Believe Nothing
- The modern workplace wasn't designed for humans - and it shows
- Forewarned: Understanding the psychology of advertising
- How your brain creates 'aha' moments and why they stick
- Imagine All the People: Food, freedom and what it means to be human
- Trump releases THIRD tranche of UFO files revealing shape-shifting orbs over the US and CIA reports hidden for decades
- UFO over Zimbabwe in summer 2008 had CIA on 'high alert,' new files reveal
- An invisible Atlantic boundary where UFO reporting changes
- Lawmakers urge Trump to grant immunity to UFO crash retrieval operatives as whistleblower repeats non-human body claims
- UFO whistleblowers storm Capitol Hill with explosive claims about alien life
- Lue Elizondo: "There's No Going Back" on UFO Disclosure
- Remains found in New Mexico national forest ID'd as those of Melissa Casias, Los Alamos employee, who vanished last year
- Trump, the Vatican and the market shock: Inside the growing disclosure debate
- NASA boss reveals unsettling reality behind newly released UFO files
- Push for UAP (UFO) transparency intensifies as members of Congress and whistleblowers call for release of groundbreaking, conclusive files
- MITRE moves to comply with lawmaker's request for UAP records and assets dating back to 1930
- UFO-linked Air Force general met shadowy Pentagon unit hours before vanishing
- Latest UFO video drop solicits baffled explanations ranging from angels and demons to jetpacks and balloons
- CIA accused of searching Ancestry and 23andMe data bases to 'hunt down' alien bloodlines in millions of DNA tests
- Joe Rogan Discusses Aliens Abducting Americans in National Parks
- Highlights From 2nd Batch Of Declassified UFO Files Include A UAP Shootdown
- World-shaking UFO files release imminent as insider Jeremy Corbell hints at 'much bigger' secrets in next disclosure drop
- Eight never-before-seen UFO videos at center of explosive disclosure battle detailed by insider
- Ex-government researcher claims 4 alien species have been pulled from crashed UFOs
- Retired Navy admiral makes bombshell claim about UFOs and 'non-human intelligence' controlling them
- Latest Trump assassination attempt gets 2-star IMDb rating for 'Poor Pacing and Predictability'
- My Diary
- A closer look on the climate sinner, Keith the goat
- Barron reveals devastating diagnosis: Debilitating hereditary bone spurs
- 2-feet of snow blocks Ipswich residents' driveway
- Pit Bull Wins Westminster Dog Show After Killing All The Other Contestants
- Trump announces new round of tariffs on everyone who didn't laugh At his jokes in Davos
- Brigitte Macron snapped making cut-throat gesture as husband asked about sunglasses
- The earliest known customer complaint was made 3,800 years ago: An ancient Babylonian tablet records the rant
- New Paper Confirms Climate Change is Significantly Increasing the Risk of an Asteroid Existential Impact by 2100
- Average age of first time buyer now 92
- Cow has weird dream about milking farmer again
- White House launches 'Nobler Peace Prize'
- Clown world: Amazon deletes guns from every single James Bond film poster
- Donald Trump replaces Joe Biden White House portrait with picture of autopen
- Thug slug: Doorbell prankster that tormented residents of German apartments turned out to be a gastropod
- British refugees travel to North Korea in search of freedom
- Man who made clothes you can't afford dies
- Clumsy eagle gifts man with "biggest bass I ever caught!"
- "Oh that Epstein!" Trump thought files were on Beatles manager Brian Epstein
Recent Comments
Sorry, bad morning, I was quite bitter. I had a lot of my livestock killed over night. Total piss off. I'd rather not post the link it's on...
How shadowy unit of government 'thought police' set up by ex-MI6 agent is trying to keep a lid on Britain's simmering racial tensions [Link]
"Taking on the obligation to fight even more wars overseas will hasten our bankruptcy." Is that the plan?
He knew what he was taking on. He knew his hands would be tied. Yes, I was referring to hot war. It’s all very sad
That Satan is one powerful character.
