For the last few days I've been increasingly suspicious that things are just a little bit to 'well packaged' on this whole #pizzagate thing.  This guy does a good job of crystallizing the concerns I have:
 
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FziveI0yqHU

The guy promises that in tomorrow's episode he will further elaborate on how to parlay this into an attack against the first amendment.  I consider such an attack to be part and parcel to what I consider to be an 'internet kill switch' but I hesitate to use the term because most people have a simplistic notion of what such a thing means.  I suspect that the guy will predict a false-flag of some sort associated with the cyber-pitchfork minions.

Restrictions on free use of the internet (and other methods of unauthorized 'peer-to-peer' or 'broadcast' information transfer) if/when it comes to that will have some blow-back on distributed crypto-currencies.  In fact I would expect to see the design customized to promote enduring capabilities to do so.

Probably some of you old-timers who are familiar with my paranoia about such things are getting tired of hearing it.  Sorry.  It's habitual in the kind of work I've done to consider the worst case scenario long before it happens if it's going to happen at all.  And it payed off in professional life.

On the Stein re-count topic for a moment...

Stein played a somewhat interesting role in 2016.  I figure that any intelligent person who is gung-ho on the climate fraud is in it for social issues.  Sometimes they are 'for real' in that they think collectivism would produce a better world (for social and/or environmental reasons), and sometimes they see the bigger picture of a corporate world takeover.  No way to know where Stein falls on this spectrum, but she did basically endorse Trump near the end so she seems to have come to her senses and figured global thermo-nuclear war was not a good thing.

Stein is, of course, a tool in this re-count thing since (and I'm supposing here) that she doesn't have any actual money herself, but her signature is required on some papers at least so she must have her reasons.

For my part I do expect that there actually was massive vote fraud in PA, MI, and WI.  Massive fraud in favor of the Dems.  Anyone suspecting the same and not liking it for whatever reason might be inclined to instigate a 're-count'.  Risky, especially in light of the death threats against the electoral college participants and such, but further analysis of 2016 could add incentive to clean up the election system.  A shrewd commie or eco-freak could look forward a few cycles when the current cohort of indoctrinated mouth-breathers are 'all grown up', and more of us less damaged fossils have kicked the bucket.

Trump seems ambivalent about the re-count, and some of the Trump operatives seem to have emitted a yelp then shut their traps.  This indicates to me that they see some potential pros among the cons of a re-count.  As I tap this out, I'm not aware of much support from the Dem establishment.

Another possibility is that Stein would prefer to see an Obama third term.  She probably does see Obama as at worst at least the lesser of two evils given his strong efforts to destroy the state-side economy, appropriate property via environmental scams, hand over sovereignty to the U.N. via TPP and other international deals, etc.  Stein might be shooting for such an electoral college mess (or a psy-op centered around it) that results in Obama or someone he chooses continues his operations.

On the general topic, least we forget, Obama invited to OSCE to 'observe' our 2016 election process here in the U.S. at much higher counts than in the past.  Not much has been said about that since it was announced.  It will be interesting to see if they swoop in at some point between now and the inauguration.

Sessions is best known to me as the one (?) guy who did his job and got off his ass and looked into the TPP which could only be analyzed under carefully controlled circumstances by our own fuckin representatives before they voted on it.  He didn't like what he saw and he went out of his way to try to communicate the problems to his peers and 'we the people.'  At least that is how I understand things currently.

I'm not surprised in the least that Sessions would be anti-encryption and is backwards/wrong on a variety of policies.  Beyond that, I've never really seen Trump himself go to bat for civil liberties or much of anything else which limited his powers, and don't expect him to be pro-encryption (or pro-crypto-currency.)   I was still quite in favor of Trump's election and am delighted by Sessions' appointment.  The main reason is that the alternative (Hillary) was utterly abysmal and every problem I have (or suspect I'll have) with Trump would be much worse under Clinton.

At the end of the day, the survival of my country is more important to me than my stake in Bitcoin, encryption, etc, and there is hope that we can turn Trump and his around on some of their backwardness.  I'll say again that I believe us to have been much closer to the end than most people suspect, and we are no where near out of the woods yet.

But nobody would kill someone to take their food if food were being used as money?  You might have more success here if you thought about what you say a little bit assuming you have that capability.

It is true in 'mad max' scenarios and otherwise that they people who have more of whatever may be considered valuable have consequently more capabilities at their disposal to ensure that they remain in possession of it.  A high density-value item such as Au offers even greater options than something like food or fuel.

If it is practical for others to relieve a value possessor of their (say) gold or BTC in a major way then it is basically the fault of the possessor for not being more careful.

I would also argue that 'warlords' are basically the direct opposite of 'chaos' (aka, anarchy) and are an inevitable and predictable sign that 'chaos' is diminishing.  I would not expect that 'chaos' would or could exist for longer than a month or two before things start to 'precipitate'.

Ebell looks a fantastic choice at first glance.  Strong property rights advocate which is in direct opposition to 'collectivists' who are milking the 'environmental issues' arguments to further their goals.  Offsets the sec-education choice which, when scratching the surface, seems abysmal.

If this Ebell guy doesn't pour ice-water on the whole climate change pseudo-science it will add a lot of weight to my hypothesis that one of the driving forces behind the scam is an excuse to do wide scale weather modification.  I don't trust that Trump and his minions would be anything but delighted to have and control this capability.

In light of the 'pizzagate' stuff, observations of the woman's peculiarities in public, reports of Hillary going out to California regularly even back in the first-lady days, etc, etc, it can't help but make a guy wonder:



Sometimes if it 'looks like a duck and quacks like a duck...."

I don't think that the divisibility issue would last very long in a collapse scenario.  Basically any convenient item would take over the 'exchange' role and be priced against the 'backing store' naturally by market forces.  Gold would be the most likely 'backing store' in a situation where crypto were not sufficiently developed to work off-grid and/or under successful attack (technical and/or legal and/or sociological, etc.)

Here in the U.S. and in many other places I would expect that formerly fiat (but post-silver) coin would take on the 'exchange currency' role.  At least for a period of time.  There is enough kicking around to provide the necessary liquidity and not become so valuable that successful forgery were practical.

Is he?  I hadn't heard, but I've been paying attention to extra-bitcoin politics at the expense of all else lately.  To answer your question, however, this would be fantastic news to me because 'nullc / Blockstream / GMax'.

Unless the guy has done a 180 since last I looked I couldn't be happier to have him at the helm.  And I would not have held tight to my stash had he not maintained his significant input around the time of the blocksize wars.  I'll wager that the relatively steady and none-to-shabby value performance of Bitcoin over the last year has a lot to do with the confidence people have at the dominant development team.

I spent a fair number of weekends exploring the Sierras across from the Bay Area.  Many if not all of the many major watershed draining the Western slope have dams.  IIRC, the water from lake Edison is used 9 times for power generation then becomes irrigation for the Central Valley.

I suspect that you are flatly wrong in implying that Hoover Dam water is a factor in most of the Central Valley irrigation, though it would not surprise me if it may have been used for that purpose in the Southern parts or in the now parched areas East of LA.

One the other side of the Sierra range, the city of Los Angeles owns the property around Mono Lake.  I know because there are signs all over the place marking it as such.  The lake itself has been much reduced.

Fine with me if you don't.

For my part, I have for a while quite deliberately mostly gotten news from 'adversarial' sources.  For instance, I put a lot more credence into what RT says about the US than I do CNN.  Of course when it comes to figuring out about Russia, I don't put much stock in RT at all.

I offset for a known bias which is not difficult for me to do.  The sucky part is that to be fair, I have to buckle down and force myself to watch the likes of TYT which isn't always pleasant these days.

I don't believe that it is a stretch at all to suggest that TPTB and their MSM wing have 'conspiracies' to foment and utilize socio-economic issues, up to and including 'race war' if they can and need to pull it off.  Fortunately Blacks and others are not stupid and more and more of them see the game and are not falling for it.

Nor do I think it much of a stretch that TPTB would use scientific means in a systematic way to arrange the 'sort of character' (to quote Russell) that the leadership wants to be leading.

Once introduced to these theories they have remarkable explanatory power and a lot of current and historical observations fall right into place.  I thank Jones, among others, for his work in doing such introductions.

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Infowars has been, to me, a top notch source of flat out reliable information over the 2016 election cycle.  I'm glad to see them enjoy the fruits of their labor and getting the recognition they deserve (ranked now 126th web site so they claim.)  The magnitude of the attacks by the lamestream press speak volumes about what a threat to the establishment Infowars presents.

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As for their funding, I think it showed some real foresight (or something) on the part of Jones to decouple himself to a degree from traditional ad revenue and the like.  He would have fallen more victim to the pressures on other similar information outlets.  I just hope that Jones expands his inventory to include more shit that I want.

What I personally want is high 'Japan style' quality in items I buy even if I have to pay a lot more.  I think it a given that the U.S. has been 'destroyed by design' economically (and otherwise) by those seeking to implement a one-world Technocracy and not wanting competition of various forms from us.  If Trump follows through with his 're-industrialization' ideas then there will be some re-tooling here in the U.S.  I'd like to see the focus being on durable and quality stuff and I hope that Infowars latches on to distribution of such in order to enhance revenue.  I'd buy through them at a premium just to support their work (assuming they continue to perform.)

I can certainly understand your desire to distance yourself from the woman and I'm sure there are many many others feeling the same way.  Will it work?  Kinda depends on who gets a hold of what of the NSA's trove I suspect.

In 'other news', isn't it funny how, with under two months left, the Obama admin is quite desperate to make some structural and personnel changes at the NSA.

Fair critiques.  Thanks for tossing them out there.

Yup.  Looks like it's gone.  That's why god make youtube-dl I guess.  When a piece of info falls into the memory hole it makes it especially interesting to me.

I had anticipated a pretty good possibility that the establishment would steal the election and knew what came directly after.  Namely, an 'operation fake-news' with some real teeth and a large expansion of the memory hole.  I thus started collecting a lot more shit which I thought might be of interest.  Though it's diminishing with the Trump/Bannon win, I'm still in that mode out of habit.

BTW, for those who use youtube-dl, note that you can use the -F flag to see a lot of different formats for a particular item and -f {n} to select one.  As someone using satellite and paying a good bit for bandwidth it's pretty useful do snatch things in lower res.

I have fairly little respect for the 'I do not listen to Jones, but...' types.  If you've only heard snippets edited together by those who are threatened by him, you probably don't have very valuable input.  I've listened to Jones off and on for a long time and the things he's been screaming from the rooftops about (police state, corporate world govt, etc) have proven remarkably on-target.  Just having some of these things in my list of hypothesis under consideration have been very valuable to me over the years, and he commonly produces items which I would not have stumbled across on my own.

Beyond that, without almost any exception that I can think of Jones' messages about how the divide and conquer techniques involving race, sexual identity, etc, are a scam that we should not fall for are universally good messages to communicate.

I do have some concerns about some of Jones' staff from time to time.  If there are establishment sponsored efforts to get a race war going (for instance), I think that Infowars would do well to catalog things in a less one-sided way sometimes.  Yes, the mainstream media (who are perfectly happy to promote scam events to the max) need a counter-balance, but it is only doing their bidding to provide a lop-sided view from the other side.

If 'the evidence' has been fabricated, then between the instagram content, the 'performance art' (reportedly) from inside Comet Pizza, etc, some group worked very fast to do so.  Work done at this rate will always contain massive holes.  Go get-em boy!

Other set-ups would have been many years in the making involving mainstream pubs.  IIRC, the analysis of Tony Podesta's 'trendy' art collection is quite old.  And, characteristically, is being memory-holed albeit with the characteristic inefficiencies in today's not-yet-fully controlled internet.  A look at the guy's publically available 'art' is enough to make one ill imagining the 'more complex' pieces require a bunker under his house to 'enjoy'.

Peiczenik claims that in the 2016 election we've been witnessing the first 'electronic' coup and counter-coup.  I'd go a step farther and suggest that with #pizzagate we are witnessing the first electronic pitchfork uprising.  It's really heartening to see.

I guess I'd argue against myself that Egypt may be classified as 'first', but in that case I would suggest that it was more the establishment (weighed to the 'corp' side of the corp/gov equation) discovering and testing out their capabilities.  #pizzagate is anything but and is being deterred by every fiber of the corp/gov establishment.

Pretty good vid.  I'd forgotten or never seen that one.  As expected, nothing about extra-terrestrials.

I actually do 'believe in' 'aliens' of the ET type.  The chances that earth was the only place where life developed is as near to nill as is possible.  Only one tiny fraction above that would be that we happened to be out in front in terms of advancement.  I figure that by-n-large the potato-head aliens who might have the technology to get here follow what I would expect to be a fundamental law of the universe...'leave the primitives alone', and especially the revolting ones as humans must be.

The occultist types seem to think they can punch a worm-hole through the shield or some such.  I actually wouldn't rule out that some sort of other-worldy 4-chan does send them goodies from time to time just for the lulz.

Back to Jones, I actually did buy a couple hundred bucks worth of shit I didn't especially need from them a few months ago just as a token of my gratitude for their fine work.  Heirloom seeds was the biggest ticket item, and I actually did want seeds which were limited in terms of hybridization and multi-national corporation patents and such.  The packaging was outstanding and there was a nice instruction sheet about how to harvest the seeds for the next year's crop.

I got some of the infowars store 'nutraceuticals' also.  And even some 'brain force' if I recall correctly.  Since I don't fully trust that the outfit is not some deep cover CIA operation, and I would consider the very best way to poison a lot of the 'undesirables' would be to distribute through a site which draws a particular kind of clientele, I've not indulged in any of them and don't expect to for a while.  Except the iodine.  This has made no difference to my being whatsoever.  I doubt that I am iodine deficient though.  I'm a hard-core saltaholic and I used iodized salt.  Always have.

I obtained but have not used some of the infowars store selenium.  Ironically, the day after I placed my order, the news came out that selenium very likely quashes any of the already few potential issues with 'zika'.

I've either read or theorized that a good way to make more people like you (~criptix) and others who would be Hillary supporters would be to try to refine out certain critical trace elements and compounds from the food supply.  Likewise or in addition, flood the environment with harmful elements that inhibit the uptake of necessary trace ones.  The technology probably exists today to produce 'designer' weapons which leverage certain deficits and result in problems.  We know from the wikileaks that Podesta and his friends are delighted to have the peeps be stupid.  When the zika/selenium observation came out I was, needless to say, fascinated.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/305278846_Antisense_inhibition_of_selenoprotein_synthesis_by_Zika_virus_may_contribute_to_neurological_disorders_and_microcephaly_by_mimicking_selenoprotein_P_knockout_and_the_genetic_disease_progressive_cerebe

I guess you have been watching him for longer than I because I've never heard him say anything about lizard people and E.T.  If anything, he pokes fun as such things .  He has guests who sometimes say some way-out stuff.  Even here, neither Jones nor probably most of his audience put to much stock into some of these things and, occasionally, it turns out that we should have.

The 'pizzagate' thing is shaping up to be as real as a heart attack.  Someone lamented on reddit or somewhere 'Why can't we just have a world where Alex Jones is not always right.'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHHtVC75g1c

I've paid attention to Jones and Infowars off and on for about 15 years.  I first heard of the guy when I saw a clip of him warning of a false-flag where 'they'll probably blame Bin Laden or someone like that' which was supposed to have been shot prior to 9/11, but I've never seen the timing validated (or looked real hard.)

I've never totally trusted the guy, but his performance over the 2016 election cycle has elevated my evaluation of his trustworthiness by a fair margin.

From a recent relevant thread:


Going a bit farther, Jones' crew were about the only ones I know of who did a lot of on-the-street interviews which I find valuable.

My current strategy is to not really value any news from any outlet which claims to be 'neutral'.  I don't think that almost anyone is, and even if they are, it is difficult to verify.  So, I listen mostly to outlets who are very up-front about who/what they support (infowars, tyt, etc), and internally I make an adjustment for their known bias.  Paying regular attention lets me gauge how much a given organization is willing to stretch the truth (which is why I watch the likes of TYT, CNN, etc mostly as a way to keep tabs on the left-wing propaganda game plan.)

I've always been 'pro-choice' and still am, though I've always thought of abortion as a regrettable thing comparable to triage.  More recently I am quit suspicious that it is influenced by eugenicist who I have no use for.

When Planned Parenthood was stung by the hidden cam journalists, they should have, in order to have kept my support, voiced an understanding of why some people might be concerned about parting out human tissue and they should have voluntarily instigated transparency and chain-of-custody programs for the tissue.

What the actually did do was to circle the wagons and go into full denial mode.  Worse, they demonized the journalists who, as far as I'm concerned, were doing their jobs and well.  Worse still, they and the legislature used the states legal aparatus to punish the journalists and criminalize this form of journalism.

Fuck Planned Parenthood.  They did some good things for women's health I'm sure, and any damage or loss to women is, in my opinion, squarely on their shoulders.

Trump very bravely stood up for PP in relation to general women's health issues in a Republican primary (not that he got any media credit for doing so, or for any other of such actions of course.)  If I were him I would stand by the basic support for the good that PP may do for poor women, but demand a bottom to top housecleaning.  There are certainly plenty of pockets of stagnation there which are badly in need of a draining and scrubbing.

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When I watched the undercover vids of PP, it struck me that these people were clearly enthused about obtaining an 'intact case.'  In my scientific mind, I tried to put that together with some advantage.  E.g, easier to get 'pure' tissue extracts, or less fear of contamination.  I never felt that hypotheses I came up with seemed complete.

Recently, as 'pizzagate' is being explored, it seems certain that we are dealing with some very sick fuckers in Hillary Clinton's imediate circle, and possibly some very very very sick ones.  I have to wonder of some of the market for this tissue were not associated with occult ritual practices.  Some people theorize that the code word 'blue cheese' in the Podesta leaked mails refers to fetuses.

My current thesis is that the CIA is basically the inteligence and operational wing for the shadow government and has been since it's founding.

As the shadow govt became more of a factor here in the U.S., and more 'global' in it's make-up, the CIA became less 'American' in it's mandate and operations.

U.S. law involving the scope of CIA operations was generally considered in operations for a long period, but these rules were increasingly bent to allow 'inefficiencies' introduced by annoying rules to be worked around.

I sense that something changed around 2013.  We could see it, to a degree, in the Smith-Mundt 'modernization' and increased scope of military resource availability and the like.  What I think may have happened was that the American population itself was re-classified as a potential enemy.  This would make sense from a 'global governance' perspective and has a lot of explainitory power when I analyze various observations.

So, my interest in who heads up the CIA is that they are a nationalist and someone who would be genuinely offended at some of the direct insults of the organization against the American people.  Hopefully an active person who would not be content to simply 'dial down' certain activities for a while, but would like to amputate and cauterize big parts of it.  Hopefully Pompeo is such a person but I have no idea if this is the case.  Flynn, as Pompeo's boss and someone who seems to have bumped pee-pees with the CIA in a major way over his career, could help this process along and I dearly hope that he does so.