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KEEPING YOUR SANITY BY USING HOPE EFFECTIVELY

wishful-thinking-realistic-ideasHope lies at the heart of our aspirations and ambitions; our dreams and wishes. It fuels us to strive for goals and achievements.

It can also lead us to wish for things we cannot have, aspire to achievements we cannot reach, and fantasize dreams that we cannot fulfill.

To the degree that hope is integrated with reality, it can serve our greatest potential. To the degree that it is disconnected from reality, it can undermine that potential; keeping us floating helplessly in fantasy, unable to find traction and gain fulfillment in our lives.

Let’s talk about how we get to the first and avoid the second…

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HALF-FULL REPORT 12/30/22

Three Megatrends to Watch in 2023

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trust-brokenA lot happened during 2022, from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to political shenanigans, even worse economic shenanigans, and the nationwide breakdown of law and order.

Each is connected to a widespread loss of trust in governments, businesses, schools, and the neighbor down the street. We are rapidly changing from a high-trust society to something else.

Three megatrends are emerging. The first is the sudden step-like change in chatbot sophistication that threatens to replace the great libraries of free and open-source information with machine-curated global narratives. Drag shows in public libraries intended to withdraw public support and the destruction of monuments are features of the shift to the singular narrative.

Loss of trust in commercial institutions is everywhere. We long suspected and compiled evidence of the collaboration of big tech with big government. Now that Elon Musk is telling the world what has been happening behind the curtain, everything is suspect. Musk is a crack in the narrative; he is the point of failure exposing the massive effort devoted to information control.

The problem for the government is apparent: Propaganda ceases to work once it is known to be propaganda.

All over the world and within most corporations, technology has been used to centralize decision-making at the expense of decision quality. The current trend is to replace the mind with a computer algo. The consequence is a dramatic decline in innovation.

Without innovation, there is nothing to prevent entropy from expanding.

Breaking trust with the current systems creates a foundation for the future. Those that understand this will prosper. Others, including entire corporations and governments, will fail.

Come to the HFR, and most of all, Happy New Year!

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SKYE’S LINKS 12/29/22

optimism-equates-progressWelcome to the final 2022 edition of Skye’s Links!  After all the downers of this year, there’s plenty of good news to report at year’s end. We start with something written by a man known as The Sea Gypsy Philosopher, who strives to be The Three Ps – Powerful, Provocative and Poetic.  I think you’ll agree he succeeds.

Here is a lovely Christmas message to Greta Thunberg.  Her puppet masters will never allow her to see it, but you should do so.  It is a message of hope.  It is also a message that the oligopoly of censorship can no longer control.  And that is very good news:

My Christmas Gift to Greta

Good news! Honest liberal Tabbi, the man that Musk chose to release and explain the Twitter Files, is optimistic that we are finally moving in the right direction for information freedom.  It isn't just Deep State/Twitter cooperation; there are far more quislings, and they will soon be exposed:

Matt Taibbi Reflects On "Repulsive, Horrifying, Dystopian" World Run By 'Anti-People'

Come on in! There’s lots more!

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THE END OF FREE ELECTIONS

biggest-vote-fraud-orgThis week, Arizona leftists and RINOs admitted, under oath, that they changed the print settings, on election morning, so Republican votes would not be tabulated, on the one day most Republicans vote -- and the Maricopa County judge said “…it wasn’t intentional.”

A Republican governor candidate who easily won by multiple points was denied her rightful election.  Several million Arizona voters were disenfranchised.

Not a word from Republican leaders!

Wake up, America.

Leftists and RINOs have spent the last 40 years transforming election machinery to end your right to vote -- and they are about to finish the job.

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TEN REVELATIONS OF THE BIG GOVERNMENT-BIG TECH COLLUSION AGAINST AMERICA

teamup-2-destroy-freedomTwo hundred and thirty-one years ago this month, America's founders enshrined free speech as the first protection in the ratified Bill of Rights with a declaration that the government could not infringe expression.

A series of blockbuster revelations at the end of 2022 show just how imperiled those protections have become in the era of Big Tech.

From Elon Musk’s "Twitter files" to an FBI agent's candid testimony, Americans have gotten a glimpse into a once-hidden enterprise where federal agencies pressured social media platforms – directly and through proxies – to censor content under their terms of service.

The goal, it appears, was to preserve the ruling elite's favored narratives on everything from the pandemic to election integrity.

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YOUR GOVERNMENT HATES YOU

cold-ruthless-rulerDid you know that in fiscal year 2022, federal tax receipts as a share of gross domestic product (GDP) hit a near record high of 19.6 percent?

According to the U.S. Treasury, in FY 2022, total federal tax receipts and additional federal government revenue topped $4.90 trillion.  Yet, over this time, Congress spent $6.27 trillion.  The difference, the 2022 deficit, was $1.37 trillion.

Presently, the U.S. national debt is over $31.4 trillion. In December 2000, the national debt was $5.6 trillion. Over the last 22 years the U.S. national debt has increased 460 percent.  U.S. GDP over this same time, however, increased just 157 percent, from about $10 trillion to 25.7 trillion.

That’s how the U.S. government works in the 21st century, where near record tax receipts will never be enough.  Why? Because your government hates you so much it thinks it has a moral right to steal as much as they want from you.

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THE GOP’S MORONIC HOUSE SPEAKERSHIP FIGHT

“Who are these five boneheads? How can they be so stupid?”

Fox News host Mark Levin

After four years of legislative malfeasance by Nancy Pelosi and her Democrat myrmidons, the Republicans will soon have a 222–213 majority in the House of Representatives.

It should be obvious to anyone with a 3-dight IQ that, to accomplish anything useful with such a narrow majority, the House Republican Conference has to close ranks and prepare for a war with a radicalized Democrat minority that will continue its ongoing effort to undermine the will of the voters.

The new Republican majority will get its first chance to present a unified front on Jan. 3, when the House meets to elect a new speaker to replace Pelosi. Yet a small cadre of GOP opportunists vows not to vote for the only realistic choice — current Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.).

Here’s why this is moronic.

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KEEPING YOUR SANITY BY UNDERSTANDING THE CONNECTION BETWEEN FEAR, FAMINE, AND FINANCES

death-by-fearMoney troubles can tap into the most primitive emotions, including intense fear, and even reactions of flight and panic. But there are ways of using these signals, so we don’t get lost in them.

Matt wakes up in the middle of the night, anxious and troubled. Breathing shallow and high in his chest, thoughts racing… The severity of his financial troubles has just hit him. His investments have dropped significantly, and his spending has been putting him deeply into debt surprisingly quickly.

He’s in trouble, big trouble. Yet the panic is Matt’s friend; his own awareness trying to break through his defenses so he can face the real problems. And there are ways of solving these problems. But nothing happens until he’s willing to acknowledge the reality first.

Why is this panic around money so severe?  And how can you use the panic to find solutions? Let’s talk about it….

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SKYE’S LINKS 12/22/22

security-cameraAutomating the Narrative

Bad Ideas, But Faster

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The Machine That Controls the World

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Over the past decade, a vast capability was built to manipulate and control the global narrative using computer networks between government, social media, and contractors.

Elon Musk exposed the incredible depth and breadth of the government’s effort to weaponize narrative control. The system appears to be under the direction of the intelligence community, especially the FBI.

Narrative control emerged in its modern form during Occupy Wall Street; it demonstrated greatly improved capability in 2016 after the election. It grew again and lit the nation on fire with George Floyd.

By those early days of Covid-19, the system was competent as it replaced reasoned science with political dogma. Millions died due to faulty advice, while real scientists with deep credentials were marginalized and arrested.

We saw the real purpose behind the machine as government insiders chose the president for the nation, President Dunsel. A dunsel is part of a ship or vessel that serves no purpose.

By the time Russia invaded Ukraine, the system had so overgrown itself that it lacked any form of a speed brake; it had driven public policy according to its wishes while creating deep confusion worldwide.

Please join us at Skye’s links as we explore the consequences of global narrative control on health, science, and investments. We are witnessing the unraveling of something as vast as the Manhattan Project, and so far, the results have been a global disaster.

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TEN STEPS TO SAVE AMERICA

save-americaMost Americans know something has gone terribly wrong—and very abruptly—with the United States. They are certain that our wounds are almost all self-inflicted. The current pathologies are not a result of a natural disaster, an exhaustion of natural resources, plagues, or an existential war.

Crushing national debt and annual deficits, spiraling food and fuel costs amid “normal” seven-percent-plus annual inflation, bread-and-circuses entitlements, a nonexistent border, a resurgence of racial tribalism, pandemic violent criminality, and humiliation abroad—all these pathologies are easily cited as symptoms of a sick patient.

So, what are the therapies and prognoses for America?

In the spirit of constructive rather than blanket criticism, here is a partial, 10-point plan of national recovery.

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A 16,000-BALLOT DISCREPANCY IN ARIZONA? ANOTHER CHIP FALLS FOR KARI LAKE

katie-hobbs-votesFresh from a court victory granting her the right to examine a random sample of Arizona's ballots from its skeezy midterm election, Kari Lake has managed to notch another advance in her quest to halt the obviously fraudulent election of her Democrat rival, Katie Hobbs.

According to Just The News, citing the results of a public records request from America First Legal Foundation:

“Recently disclosed internal communications between top election officials in Arizona's Maricopa County in the immediate aftermath of Election Day reveal that they struggled to reconcile a discrepancy of almost 16,000 in outstanding ballot totals… 

‘Unable to currently reconcile SOS listing with our estimates from yesterday,’ state elections recorder Stephen Richer wrote, showing that Maricopa County estimated having 392,000 ballots left to be counted, while the secretary of state's website said there were 407,664 ballots left. ‘So there's a 15,000 difference somewhere’.”

Let us first note just where the extra 15,664 supposed votes came from: the Arizona secretary of state, who just happens to be Katie Hobbs, who claims she defeated Kari Lake by 17,116 votes (1,287,890 to 1,270,774).

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WHY LEFTISTS AREN’T CAPABLE OF SURVIVING ECONOMIC COLLAPSE

left-cant-surviveIn two years or less, our system, which is already dealing with a number of threats including high prices and supply chain instability, will not remain functional in the manner most people are accustomed. If we accept this inevitability, we must then ask a logical question:

Who is going to rebuild? Whoever inherits the mantle will either bring America back to freedom and prosperity, or plunge our society into perpetual tyranny. It all depends on who survives the crisis.

One thing that gives me some hope is the fact that leftists as a sub-group of our population are completely incapable of surviving a major economic crisis event.

This is not to say that I wish them all to die; I’m only pointing out the reality that most of them won’t make it because they are ill equipped to handle a calamity. Here are the reasons why a post-collapse world would probably be devoid of common leftists:

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PUTIN ON THE WANE

19th-century-russPutin’s annual marathon end-of-the-year press conference has been canceled, as has the traditional “direct line” with carefully trained audiences, and his constitutionally prescribed annual address to the Federal Assembly has been postponed indefinitely (RTVi.com, December 15).

Speculation discussed by many watchers-in-exile is that Putin does not want to hear even slightly uncomfortable questions and cannot find a positive or reassuring theme for his typically pompous address (Svoboda, December 15).

This is primarily due to unfolding failure of his invasion of Ukraine, exemplified by such ridicule as:

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KEEPING YOUR SANITY BY FINDING THE BEST WITHIN US

the-far-countryNevil Shute (1899-1960) was my mom’s favorite author. He mirrored her sense of optimism and perseverance, so for me they are a kind of time capsule, with an emotional quality and a spirit of life that I learned, in part, from her.

If you have never read him, you’re in for a treat. Not just because they’re great stories; I recommend them for the sense of life they convey.

Nevil Shute’s stories are about ordinary people doing extraordinary things.

Crises have the effect of forcing us to do things that we would otherwise not have done – for better or worse. We can have talents, strengths, and abilities that lie dormant unless and until we are challenged with an unavoidable problem to solve.

We all need this message in the troubling times all of us are facing today.

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SKYE’S LINKS 12/15/22

washington-fallsThe Truth is Emerging

Let Freedom Ring!

So far, Elon Musk has dropped five tweets exposing the massive corruption and collusion between Twitter, government agencies, and big finance.

We knew it was terrible, but it was horrible.

Every government agency had its finger in the pot while the founder, Jack Dorsey, retreated to smoke pot and found himself in a yurt.

He put a staff of the most radical, most transvestite, most anti-reality people possible in charge with the intent of changing reality from objective truth into whatever the government required.

They did this by tailoring the Twitter experience to the individual user by keeping track of past comments and reading cookies left behind from other web activity.

They made a big mistake as they boiled the frog too hard and fast, and now Musk is in control of their entire work product.

Elon Musk lost his child to the wokesters. He has an axe to grind, a dog in the fight. The consequences for the central planners look to be pretty bad.

Alberta is reasserting its rights under federalism, and North Carolina is at the Supreme Court, asserting the rights of its legislature to organize elections per the US Constitution.

Stagflation is the economic order of the day, and it will be here for a while. Over sixty percent of living Americans were not yet born during the last period of stagnation, and it was scrubbed from their school curriculum. The young will need guidance.

All in all, the news is very good for Freedom.

Join us over at Skye’s links.

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THE COMING WAR OVER HUNTER BIDEN

bideinmate"Committee Republicans have spoken with multiple whistleblowers from numerous schemes involving the Biden family, reviewed Hunter Biden's laptop, and received documents of previously unknown transactions," House Oversight Committee Chairman-to-be Rep. James Comer told a news conference on Nov. 17.

"What we found are business plans aimed at targets around the world based on influence peddling, including with people closely tied to foreign governments like China and Russia." The Bidens, Comer said, "flourished and became millionaires by simply offering access to 'The Family.'"

Press coverage of the investigation will likely fall into two categories. The first will focus on traditional coverage of what the committee discovers, what witnesses tell investigators, what documents are involved, etc. The second will ignore those developments or attack the investigation itself.

After all, it’s clearly possible that what these investigations reveal could put the Big Guy in an orange jumpsuit.

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TWITTER FILES PAINTS A DAMNING PICTURE OF TWITTER’S MAOIST CULTURE

maoistcultureBari Weiss has just published the fifth installment in Elon Musk’s exposé about the rampant corruption in Twitter, clearly showing Twitter employees were Maoists waging a cultural revolution against President Trump and anyone who voted for him.

I’ll load Weiss’s tweets below, but here’s the quick summary:  On January 8, Trump loaded two tweets, with Twitter employees in charge of analyzing tweets concluded that Trump’s tweets had not violated any policy.

The zealots on Twitter’s bloated payroll (most of whom had graduated from America’s hard-left colleges), were adamant that Trump had violated the policy against incitement. As one employee stated in the company’s Slack channel, it was “pretty obvious he’s going to try to thread the needle of incitement without violating the rules.”

In other words, these proud products of America’s academic system firmly believed that they had to violate their own rules in order to prevent Trump from continuing not to violate their rules.

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OUR PARASITIC GENERATION

The Vandals Sack of Rome 455 AD

The Vandals Sack of Rome 455 AD

Are we sure that there is all that much ruin left in the United States?

We are $31 trillion in collective debt. The new normal is $1.5 trillion budget deficits. The military is politicized and short of recruits. We trade lethal terrorists for woke celebrity athletes as if to confirm our enemies’ cynical stereotypes.

Our FBI is corrupt and discredited, collaborating with Silicon Valley contractors to suppress free speech and warp elections.

The decrepitude of major blue state cities recalls the weedy forums and choked fountains of Vandal-era Roman cities, which is what happens when a later parasitic generation mocks but still consumes what it inherits but cannot create.

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DON’T BE AFRAID OF A RUSSIAN COLLAPSE

Bush and Gorbachev shake hands in Moscow on July 31, 1991

Bush and Gorbachev shake hands in Moscow on July 31, 1991

In August 1991, then-U.S. President George H.W. Bush was in Kyiv to counsel Ukrainians against statehood. Only weeks before Ukraine declared independence and only months before the Soviet Union was dissolved, Bush worried about the collapse of Soviet authority.

These leaders, for all their achievements managing the end of the Cold War, were on the wrong side of history on this fundamental question of self-determination for Moscow’s captive peoples. Luckily, Ukraine and the other former Soviet republics that are now independent did not listen.

Today, we are witnessing similar fears in Western capitals. With Russian President Vladimir Putin’s regime in a downward spiral due to the Kremlin’s disastrous war against Ukraine, the Russian regime’s collapse and even Russia’s possible disintegration have become a major cause of concern. Here’s why it shouldn’t be.

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KEEPING YOUR SANITY BY REPLACING WORRY WITH FINANCIAL EFFECTIVENESS

creativity-anxietyWorry is essentially a response to things that are outside of our control. We worry about our kids, we worry about world events, we worry about the economy… and we worry about certain money troubles.

Shifting our focus from worry to facing the specific obstacles in our path can move us from worry to genuine peace of mind.

Think about something that you do well. Do you ever worry about it? Sure, you think about it, you prepare for it, you act on it.

But do you worry? Do you sit helplessly thinking about all the things that could go wrong, and how awful it would be if they did go wrong?  I doubt it. You probably just get to work.

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HALF-FULL REPORT 12/09/22

bolsonaroThe War for the Future of the World

Bolsonaro Pushes Back Against Election Fraud

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Mainstream media is heavily censoring events going on right now in Brazil.

This HFR presents analysis and insight from personal contacts throughout Brazil, Peru, and El Salvador in the aftermath of the election fraud in Brazil. This HFR is a TTP exclusive; many thanks to friends who made it possible.

President Bolsonaro appears to be enacting a well-considered and aggressive plan to take down communist insurgents and Narcotics criminals throughout his country and others. Martial law is expected, and the outcome is no less than a battle for the world.

The same voting machine irregularities, along with late-night vote drops, turned the election from the popular Bolsonaro to the communist Lula in the same way as Americans have come to expect.

Only this time, Brazilians are standing up against corruption. There are still real men in Brazil.

The battle is joined. It's time to save the world.

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SKYE’S LINKS 12/08/22

[Note by JW: This cornucopia of links for you is one of Skye’s best. Be sure to absorb what he says on the “existentially decisive crisis of information freedom versus centralized technofascist control.” His closing remarks at the end are an eye-opener. Enjoy what you are about to learn!]

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Just out of curiosity… is it my imagination or is there a resemblance between Arnold and Elon? In any regard, the 'Crats believe that they have to destroy Musk:

The Trumpification Of Elon Musk

The Powers That Be need near universal censorship to retain their control.  The Twitter free speech saga is a far broader war then most people realize; this not just about the future of Twitter - it is about the future of our freedom:

The Establishment Is Using An Ideological Monopoly In Big Tech To Maintain Control

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Here is a fine rant describing the fake information world of 2022 and what is at stake if we are unable to escape it:

Quinn: We Are Trapped In 'A Truman Show' Directed By Psychopaths

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YES, THE 2020 ELECTION WAS STOLEN

illegal-procedureFor two years, the constant shouting of childish epithets at anyone who would dare question Joe Biden’s legitimacy has suppressed a necessary reckoning with an election that was, in every sense, a complete aberration.

It is disingenuous to dismiss the role of fraud in such an unprecedented scenario: an election with historic turnout that, thanks to the widespread adoption of an unconventional voting method prone to cheating, was not decided until an unusually dilated, shadowy tabulating process had run its course in a handful of heavily partisan jurisdictions.

The Right must not simply forget it and move on. Why? Because the Left’s Big Lie about the 2020 election legitimizes a lawless, counterfeit system. If the system is not unrigged, if the 2020 election’s legitimacy is not repudiated, then we can kiss any chance of free and fair elections goodbye. Every election going forward will be just like 2020 and 2022. Are you ready for that?

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IF YOU REALLY WANTED TO DESTROY THE UNITED STATES, THEN…

bide-destroyerFirst, you would surrender our prior energy independence.

Reduce new gas and oil leases on federal lands to the lowest levels of any president in history. Cut back production at precisely the time the world is emerging from a two-year lockdown with pent-up consumer demand.

Make war on coal and nuclear power. Drain the strategic petroleum reserve to make the pain for consumers more bearable for midterm election advantage.

Cancel the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge oil and gas field. Block pipelines like the Keystone oil pipeline and the Constitution natural gas line.

Second, print trillions of dollars in new currency as the lockdowns end, demand rises, and consumers are already saturated with COVID-19 subsidies.

Keep interest rates low, well below the rate of inflation, as you print more money. Ensure that passbook holders earn no interest at the very time prices skyrocket to the highest per annum level in 40 years.

Third….

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RUSSIAN SOLDIERS ARE FREEZING TO DEATH IN EASTERN UKRAINE

Russians too frozen to move in a trench as a drone bomb explodes among them

Russians too frozen to move in a trench as a drone bomb explodes among them

The Ukrainian army has deployed some of its best brigades to eastern Ukraine, including the 92nd and 93rd Mechanized Brigades and the 1st Presidential Brigade.

But these elite Ukrainian formations might not be the biggest killer of Russian troops in the east. Under-trained, under-supplied and ambivalently led, Russians in the region are freezing to death by the dozen.

Shocking videos that have circulated online in recent weeks tell a tragic story. The videos, shot by the Ukrainian brigades’ hovering drones, depict Russians in the late stages of hypothermia, so cold and sick that they barely react when the drones drop lethal improvised bombs on them.

Thomas Theiner, an ex-soldier who currently is a filmmaker in Kyiv, predicted winter “would kill more Russian soldiers than Ukraine ever could.” He may have been right.

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KEEPING YOUR SANITY BY NOT SHAMING YOUR FRIENDS

For many years psychological research tended to use guilt and shame interchangeably, which made it hard to see the very different qualities of each. But we know a lot more about those differences now, and they are substantial.

Guilt is associated with accepting responsibility.  Shame, on the other hand, compels us to avoid responsibility, and makes us worse people.

Shame is a more primitive emotion than guilt. Guilt is a more sophisticated emotion that involves more complex thinking and problem solving.

With guilt, we feel bad about something that we’ve done. With shame, we feel bad about who we are.  So let’s get to the practical point if this…

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SKYE’S LINKS 12/01/22

online-networkNarrative Control.

It's All They Have.

And They Will Fight to Keep It.

This week we look at a number of links that appear disconnected at first but, upon a deeper examination, reveal the struggle between the forces to create and control the single world narrative on everything, and the centripetal forces pulling it all apart.

Testimony to Congress has shown that our government was really just winging it during Covid. There was little science but a lot of bureaucratic turfism and careerism. The result was widespread economic destruction, personal losses that will never be recovered, and trauma to children that will last their lifetimes. Careerism among our elites is laid bare for all to see.

Elon Musk has bet his fortune that centralized narrative control is failing as institutions from Washington to Beijing to the corporate campus are found to be inauthentic and residing on a throne of lies.

The Fourth Turning might very well turn out to be a global struggle for authenticity.

Please join us at Skyes’s links, and share your insights.

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BIDEN MUTE AS PROTESTS DEMAND FREEDOM AROUND THE WORLD

joe-mute-fighterWhat does the United States stand for? With Joe Biden in the White House, absolutely nothing.

Apparently, we don’t stand for freedom. As brave citizens in China desperately protest that country’s heinous lockdowns and censorship, a spokesman for the Biden administration says that the White House is “going to watch this closely.”

We don’t stand with women’s rights. Violent and widespread protests in Iran over the killing of a young woman arrested for not wearing a hijab haveresulted in hundreds of deaths. All Joe can do is mumble about “standing in solidarity” with the protestors.

Yes, the Biden administration has stood up to Russia after Vladimir Putin’s unprovoked and despicable invasion of Ukraine. But, only to a point. Heaven forbid we actually declare an intention to help Ukraine win the war – a goal never once expressed by our president.

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THE SCENT OF ANTI-CHICOM REVOLUTION IN THE AIR

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The huge protests engulfing China right now against lockdowns have left a lot of people wondering if these are just protests.  The size, scope, vehemence, and fearlessness of the Chinese public against their very oppressive communist masters has made them appear to be a mass movement.

This photo report from the Sunday Mail (11/27) is quite extraordinary. Protests have engulfed at least seven major Chinese cities -- Nanjing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Urumqi, Zhengzhou, and others, all against COVID lockdowns, with the big one going on in Shanghai, where the locals are openly demanding the ouster of China's supreme leader, Xi Jinping.

Chinese Police Clash With Thousands Protesting Draconian COVID Lockdowns As Unprecedented Civil Unrest Grips Country

When a billion-strong nation rises up on a cause that has unified them such as this, there's clearly the scent of revolution in the air.

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HELP STOP A GENOCIDE

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Sometimes things are very simple.  If you can easily do something to halt a genocide, then you should.

The First Holodomor, the genocidal starvation by Josef Stalin of millions of Ukrainians 90 years ago, was kept hidden from the world for many decades.  The Second Holodomor, now being attempted by Vladimir Putin, is in the open for all the world to see.

The notion that Ukraine does not exist, that its state is artificial and its national consciousness a confusion -- this Putinist rhetoric is genocidal.  Moscow’s claims that Ukrainians are all Nazis or gays or Jews or Satanists (the current line) is nothing more than a fascist politics of us-and-them: the enemy is defined via hate speech as subhuman, as beyond any ethical concern, existing only to be destroyed.

The Russian intention in Ukraine has been genocidal from the beginning.

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KEEPING YOUR SANITY WITH THE ANTIDOTE TO THE HEDONIC TREADMILL

beach-shore-at-sunsetOne of the often unspoken expectations when we buy something is that it will, to some degree, make us happy. And when we become used to the availability of good things, when we come to expect them as a regular experience of a good life, we enter what’s called the “Hedonic Treadmill.”

Needing more and more good things in order to feel what we’ve come to expect as a baseline of happiness can be exhausting. It can undermine the sense of happiness we enjoy with each positive experience.

And in that way we can undermine our sense of being happy about our life.

But there is an antidote; something we can deliberately practice and gets easier over time, and that can significantly affect our happiness.  Here it is.

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HALF-FULL REPORT 11/25/22

power-lines-at-dawnElectrical Power is the Elephant in the Room.

Russian missiles knocked out the Ukrainian power grid this past week, with much of the nation in darkness.

Lviv, in Western Ukraine, and part of Kyiv appear to be back online as of publishing time. Western nations are scrambling to source every available gasoline and diesel-powered generator for local use while larger military-grade systems are being mobilized.

Electrical grid failure is a severe possibility over much of the world as recent trends in cloud-based computing will drive global demand to 100%, then 200%, then 400% higher within a decade. The most significant driver is cryptocurrency mining.

It has been said that what cannot happen won’t happen. Perhaps it is just a coincidence, but the move to replace national currencies with Bitcoin and similar devices is crashing headlong into the electricity problem. Windmills and solar are toys compared to thermal and nuclear power station output. And these real power plants are being closed.

The result? The US Dollar will fend off the attack from cryptos. It is almost as if the government planned things out this way.

Come on over to the HFR. Let’s talk about the Elephant in the room.

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SKYE’S LINKS 11/24/22

happy_thanksgiving-americaToday is Thanksgiving Day, and it is my favorite holiday. Thank you, thank you to the many TTPers taking the time to read Skye's Links today. Your friendship and engagement on the forum are deeply meaningful. We are a team of like-minded friends, and sometimes not so like-minded, engaging together to understand the world better.

Our world is changing fast as global finance capitalism attempts to dominate industrial capitalism. The old system lifted the quality of life for everyone on the planet. The new system? Not so much as fee income from every facet of life and movement replaces investment in productive systems.

The photo is an old political propaganda piece first used by FDR against Hoover and later used by the Axis against American G.I.s. It successfully depicted the American Dream on this most beautiful holiday.

Little did people know that the Deep State then and the Deep State today see the simple message of prosperity as their enemy; as they see it, a happy home can afford to pay higher fees.

Please join us at Skye's Links while we discuss the changes we are seeing and the deeper meaning.

Enjoy your day, and we hope you are with your family and loved ones. And if you have a moment, share the prayers, and Grace offered before your meal today on the forum. So many TTPers want to hear each other's thoughts, especially today.

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THE VOTING MORONS

marching_moronsYou know the story: a man wakes up after a century-long bout of suspended animation to find… orbital colonies? Contact with aliens? Cheap universal fusion power?

Nope – he finds a culture inhabited by ill-dressed goons speaking in monosyllables, with no understanding of history or the natural world or anything else, surrounded by shoddy, fake technology. The president is a dreadlocked idiot. The average IQ hovers around 65.

Sure… you know that one. It’s Idiocracy, the comic film from 2006. Except that it isn’t -- it’s “The Marching Morons,” a 1951 short story by C.M. Kornbluth. That’s where the producers of Idiocracy got it, without acknowledgement, knowing that the current run of morons wouldn’t recognize it.

We’ve haven’t reached the state of Idiocracy or “Marching Morons” as of yet. But from the evidence of the midterms, we’re a good halfway there.

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HOW GEN Z KILLED THE RED WAVE

gen-xyzWith the failure of the Republican Party to achieve a red wave in the midterm elections, many explanations — and accusations — are being bandied about.  Blame is attributed to abortion, Trump endorsements, election integrity, and voter fraud, and the shifting of millions of votes to Democrats by Google, Facebook, and other tech monopolies.

Marketing expert Mark Beal from the Rutgers University School of Communication and Information believes there is still another factor in the election that is being overlooked: the impact of Generation Z.  An expert on this group (born between 1997 and 2015), Beal says they will wield increasing influence on local, state, and national election outcomes.

Xi Van Fleet, who as a child lived under the tyranny of Mao's Cultural Revolution and his young Red Guards, told a Dallas audience recently that she believed she had left communism behind forever, only to find that her son is now a Bernie Sanders–supporter after being indoctrinated in communism in public schools. Her son epitomizes Gen Z.

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IT’S COSTING PEANUTS FOR THE US TO DEFEAT RUSSIA

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Ukrainian Minister of Defense Oleksii Reznikov

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Ukrainian Minister of Defense Oleksii Reznikov

From numerous perspectives, when viewed from a bang-per-buck perspective, US and Western support for Ukraine is an incredibly cost-effective investment.

Altogether, the Biden administration received Congressional approval for $40bn in aid for Ukraine for 2022 and has requested an additional $37.7bn for 2022. More than half of this aid has been earmarked for defense.

These sums pale into insignificance when set against a total US defense budget of $715bn for 2022. The assistance represents 5.6% of total US defense spending. But Russia is a primary adversary of the US, a top tier rival not too far behind China, its number one strategic challenger.

In cold, geopolitical terms, this war provides a prime opportunity for the US to erode and degrade Russia’s conventional defense capability, with no boots on the ground and little risk to US lives.

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SAME OLD SAME OLD DÉJÀ VU

Merrick Garland

Merrick Garland

Attorney General Merrick Garland has just announced the appointment of special counsel Jack Smith.

But Smith’s team will not look into the Biden family quid pro quo syndicate nor its incriminating confessionals on Hunter Biden’s laptop.

Instead, it will further investigate Donald Trump’s possession of presidential records that were hauled off from Mar-a-Lago, as well as his purported role in the January 6 “insurrection.”

We know the script that will follow because we suffered through it for 22 months and spent $40 million for it under Robert Mueller’s special counsel team. Here’s what will happen.

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KEEPING YOUR SANITY BY HAVING THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS

extovert-introvert-balancePeople who are extroverts – people who are more sociable, who like to be out, talk, and interact with other people, and who gladly put themselves out into new situations – tend to be happier than people who are not.

That’s great for those who, by temperament, happen to be extroverts. But what if we’re not naturally extroverted? We can still improve our overall happiness by doing extroverted things.

The delightful truth is that, from simply taking more extroverted actions, our overall happiness grows about the same as if we were naturally extroverted.

If you tend to be an introvert, if your natural comfort is to be more solitary, shy, or quietly inward, I’m not suggesting that you deny your nature, or pretend to be someone that you’re not. There are significant strengths to introversion that I’ll discuss in a moment.

But you can get some of the benefits of an extrovert as well by practicing certain skills; then you can have the best of both worlds.

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KATIE HOBBS PROJECTED TO WIN ARIZONA GOVERNORS RACE WITH 108% OF PRECINCTS REPORTING

Katie Hobbs, advocate of the Josef Dzhugashvilli Voting System

Katie Hobbs, advocate of the Josef Dzhugashvilli Voting System

Babylon Bee News Bulletin -- PHOENIX, AZ — In a stunning outcome to a highly scrutinized race, Katie Hobbs, Arizona’s Secretary of State who counts the votes, has emerged victorious after 108% of the state's voting precincts reported in. Though mathematicians were puzzled by the plausibility — and, indeed, possibility — of the results, Democrats were quick to hail Hobbs's win as a victory for democracy itself.

"We knew things looked really bad for weeks leading up to election night, what with abysmal approval ratings for our party, Americans feeling negatively about the overall direction of the country, and Ms. Hobbs being afraid to debate her opponent or even appear in public," said Hobbs's campaign spokesperson Hailey Barber-Berger-Jorgensen. "But we felt very confident that once we got our vote tallies from all 108% of precincts, including those in other states and overseas, we would come out victorious."

Republicans were quick to point out that it's not actually possible to have more votes than voters. Democrats roundly condemned them for denying an election that was 8% more democratic than the last election.

At publishing time, Arizona election officials had notified all voting precincts that their tallies would not be needed and it was time to install even more drop-boxes for the 2024 election.

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SKYE’S LINKS 11/17/22

George Gascon – from Havana to LA

George Gascon – from Havana to LA

And just when you thought that the 'Crats' election shenanigans couldn't become more blatant.  “Soros DA” George Gascon is an America-hating Castro Communist from Havana who got the LA County Clerk to invalidate enough recall petition signatures (27%!)  last August to prevent his recall. Election-rigging is hard-wired into Los Angeles.

LA's 'Soros DA' Gets Charges Dropped Against Election Software CEO

doomed-nation

This FBI whistleblower has a lot to say:

The FBI's Transformation, From National Police To Domestic Spy Agency

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