Sunday, November 30, 2025
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AS I’VE OFTEN SAID AND WROTE:
The Federal Reserve Bank is a misnomer. IT ain’t “federal”. It reserves nothing. And, it ain’t a “bank”. It is a private cartel of the elite banks run for their benefit and that of the entrenched politicians.
Gooferment is immoral, ineffective, and inefficient. As well as untrustworthy.
“The state is a gang of thieves writ large.” — Murray Rothbard
“Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.” – Mark Twain
The Dead Old White Guys would be revolting again, IMHO!
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Sunday, November 30, 2025
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/11/bonkers-bitcoin-heist-5-star-hotels-cash-filled-envelopes-vanishing-funds/
Bitcoin mining hardware exec falls for sophisticated crypto scam to tune of $200k
Joel Khalili – Nov 18, 2025 1:37 PM
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As Kent Halliburton stood in a bathroom at the Rosewood Hotel in central Amsterdam, thousands of miles from home, running his fingers through an envelope filled with 10,000 euros in crisp banknotes, he started to wonder what he had gotten himself into.
Halliburton is the cofounder and CEO of Sazmining, a company that operates bitcoin mining hardware on behalf of clients—a model known as “mining-as-a-service.” Halliburton is based in Peru, but Sazmining runs mining hardware out of third-party data centers across Norway, Paraguay, Ethiopia, and the United States.
As Halliburton tells it, he had flown to Amsterdam the previous day, August 5, to meet Even and Maxim, two representatives of a wealthy Monaco-based family. The family office had offered to purchase hundreds of bitcoin mining rigs from Sazmining—around $4 million worth—which the company would install at a facility currently under construction in Ethiopia. Before finalizing the deal, the family office had asked to meet Halliburton in person.
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Sorry, but NO ONE gets cash filled envelopes in an honest transaction.
That should have been the first clue to a scam.
Then to “prove a capability or a holding” of bitcoin transfer some to a strange wallet?
Just reading the story, my ex-CISO “spydee senses” were on high alert.
And inputing a key “seed phrase” into an unknown software wallet you just downloaded was just the height of stupidity.
Sorry to pile on and beat a “dead horse”, but the warning signs were there.
Who knew if “wealthy Monaco-based family office” was even a real entity. Or if they even knew what was going on in their name.
Argh!
“You can’t cheat an honest man.” — W. C. Fields
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Saturday, November 29, 2025
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/11/the_un_must_go.html
November 18, 2025
The UN Must Go!
By Moshe Phillips
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The world’s democracies, which provide the lion’s share of the UN’s funding — especially the United States — find themselves routinely outvoted by blocs of authoritarian regimes that use their membership not to promote peace or justice, but to shield each other from accountability. The result is an institution that rewards the corrupt, legitimizes the violent, and sidelines the nations that actually uphold the values the UN was meant to defend. And it is American taxpayers who foot the largest share of the bill for this failure. Each year, billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars flow into UN programs and peacekeeping missions that produce little peace and even less accountability.
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It is time to admit what has long been obvious: the United Nations is no longer the solution. It is part of the problem. And the UN, like the League before it, belongs in the dustbin of history.
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And the US can’t afford the luxury of it any more. As with most Gooferment creations, it too is immoral, ineffective, and inefficient. As well as untrustworthy.
Atrocities by UN “peacekeepers”, the WHO that has been captured by liberals and Big Pharma, Ukrainian corruption with US bio labs, the inability to stop or even condemn genocides, the rampant expansion of NATO to threaten Russia, and on and on and on.
“When in a hole, stop digging!” — old Wall Street maxim
It might be a small irritant, but the behavior in NYC of UN “diplomats” denotes an attitude of entitlement as opposed to serious people as guest in another nation.
While clearly “might makes right” with respect to who is seated in the UN, like China versus Taiwan, we don’t have to provide “free parking” for tyrants, dictators, and criminals just because they seize power.
It’s time for the USA to call a halt to the “kabuki theater” that the UN has become and stop paying for its abuses.
The world would be better off if there was no “United Nations” to interfere with peace.
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Friday, November 28, 2025
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/uk-government-wins-battle-withhold-data-linking-covid-vaccines-excess-deaths/
November 17, 2025 › Health Conditions › Toxic Exposures › News
Toxic Exposures
UK Government Wins 2-Year Battle to Withhold Data Linking COVID Vaccines to Excess Deaths
- Under a ruling last week by the U.K. Information Commissioner’s Office, the UK Health Security Agency is not required to publicly release data that could link COVID-19 vaccines to excess deaths. The ruling, which ended a two-year battle over the data, has led to accusations of a “cover-up,” according to The Telegraph, which first reported the story.
by Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D.
November 17, 2025
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British health freedom activist and podcaster Dan Astin-Gregory, a member of MEHA’s steering committee, said that if “the data exonerated the program, it would be published immediately. The refusal alone shows that transparency has been traded for institutional self-preservation. Families who have lost loved ones deserve honesty, not secrecy.”
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Sorry, but any and every Gooferment should have no secrets.
“Secrecy begets tyranny.” —Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
The fact that the UK Gooferment is concealing the “bad news” just means that the US Gooferments will do the same thing.
“The state is a gang of thieves writ large.” — Murray Rothbard
And, this just proves it.
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Thursday, November 27, 2025
RECENTLY, my problems with “DOWNTIME” for youth account have resumed.
It started with:
- A real child id account with picture
- A “ghost” child id account without picture
- An adult id that was duplicated.
Turned on, the child’s account limits and those limits were applied to my iPhone.
Argh!
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In attempting to “fix” the problem(s):
- Had to wipe the iPhone to get rid of the “account limits”.
- The restore from iCloud backup never would complete and after three tries just wiped the iphone
- Restarting basically from a blank slate, WALLET didn’t restore or recover my passport or credit cars. Argh!
- Also, all the apps had to be reinstalled with lost “history”
- Every setting seemed to need a reset. Argh!
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Thursday, November 27, 2025
https://www.casinocitytimes.com/john-robison/article/ask-the-slot-expert-i-see-casino-equivalents-in-everyday-things-69137
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Pareidolia is the term for seeing a familiar pattern in a random or ambiguous visual stimulus, like seeing faces on toast or a potato chip that looks like Darth Vader.
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pareidolia /păr″ī-dō′lē-ə/nounThe perception of a recognizable image or meaningful pattern where none exists or is intended, as the perception of a face in the surface features of the moon.The tendency to interpret a vague stimulus as something known to the observer, such as interpreting marks on Mars as canals, seeing shapes in clouds, or hearing hidden messages in music.The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition • More at Wordnik
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Wow, never knew there was a word for this (what I’d call) human failing.
Like the tulip craze, human sometimes “hallucinate” just like AI. Also like “pink elephants”, humans can imagine things that don’t exist. Some times that’s a fatal flaw (i.e., a mirage in the dessert; an honest politician; jumbo shrimp).
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Wednesday, November 26, 2025
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/11/primary-residence-scam-heres-why-james-schiff-cook/
The Primary-Residence Scam: Here’s Why James, Schiff, Cook, and Swalwell’s Mortgage Fraud Cannot Be Tolerated
by Joel Gilbert Nov. 17, 2025 8:00 am
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Allowing lies about occupancy hides this elevated risk.
When someone misrepresents a second home or investment property as their primary residence, they distort the lender’s assessment of risk.
The bank thinks they are issuing a safer loan than they actually are. In reality, they are being exposed to the elevated risks associated with investment properties including higher vacancy rates, greater likelihood of strategic default, and more volatile cash flows.
If this deception is tolerated, the pricing model for mortgages collapses. The lender cannot correctly measure risk, and without accurate risk assessments, the cost of lending rises for everyone.
Make no mistake, primary-residence fraud is theft. Lying about primary residence constitutes mortgage fraud, a federal crime under 18 U.S.C. § 1014. Penalties may include federal felony charges, up to 30 years in prison, fines up to $1 million, and civil liability, including treble damages.
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Sorry, but I feel little sympathy for politicians and bureaucrats who commit mortgage fraud. As someone, who has had multiple homes and multiple mortgages, I ALWAYS played by the rules. And, suffered bigger down payments, higher interest rates, and more expensive insurance rates. I think the legal distinction between: domicile, primary residence, other residences, multiple homes, and “vacation” homes as arbitrary and confusing. (I also object to paying property taxes on a home where I can not vote how money is spent, but I can sure pay those taxes from which money is spent.)
The politicians and bureaucrats, who are always in the top tier of wealth, should be held to a standard like Caesar’s wife. And, when they fall afoul of the laws they created, they should be judged and punished harshly.
Equality under the law for everyone; not just us “little people”!
That goes for insider trading too!
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Tuesday, November 25, 2025
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Maybe MEMEs are the best way to communicate with “We, The Sheeple”?
It’s hard to get them to focus.
We have concrete examples — North and South Korea, Cuba, Venezuela, London, Paris, and … …
… … the best of all Poland and Hungary.
So sad that th USA experiment in self-governance lasted for 250 years only to fall to the corrupt “two UNI-party system” that the Dead Old White Guys tried to prevent.
I’m a fat old white guy injineer and I focus on solutions; not idle bitching.
Here’s my formula to claw out of this hole:
- Repeal the Seventeenth Amendment (Direct election of Senators) and return it to the various State Legislatures.
- Repeal the Sixteenth Amendment (Income tax) and fund the the Federal Gooferment with a population based assessment on the individual States.
- Repeal all laws the Federal Gooferment has as they pertain to individual citizens.
- Return the “immigration function” to the individual States.
- Enact Buffet’s 3% solution on the House of Representatives (3% deficit makes all sitting member of the House ineligible for reelection).
- Transition back to a gold back currency. Transition to End The Fed!
- Size limits on all “corporations” (No more too big to fail — too big to fail is too big to exist).
- All corporate compensation that exceeds the President’s salary must be in the form of corporate bonds laddered over 25 years (No executive rape and pillage companies into insolvency).
I think that’s a good start to returning to the Dead Old White Guys’ vision of the Federal Republic.
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Monday, November 24, 2025
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20251111-the-magic-of-the-worlds-rarest-blood-type?utm_campaign=website&utm_medium=email&utm_source=nautilus-newsletter
The magic of the world’s rarest blood type
Jasmin Fox-Skelly
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Only one in every six million people have the Rh null blood type. Now researchers are trying to grow it in the laboratory in the hope it could save lives.
Blood transfusions have transformed modern medicine. If we are ever unlucky enough to be injured or need serious surgery, blood that has been donated by others can be life-saving.
But not everyone is able to benefit from this remarkable procedure. People with rare blood types struggle to find donated blood that will match their own.
One of the rarest – the Rh null blood type – is found in just 50 known people in the world. Should they ever be in an accident that needs a transfusion, their chances of getting one are slim. Those with Rh null are instead encouraged to freeze their own blood for long-term storage.
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Thanks to the USAF, “APOS” might as well be tattooed on my fore head. Laugh!
Seriously, due to my now sainted wife’s terminal illness, I have donated a lot of blood and platelets.
In ingineering skrule, Brother Austin Barry would always give us time off from lab work to donate blood. His rationale was that we were too dumb to do anything useful in the lab and he would not have to worry that we were killing our selves of others in the lab. (He accidentally electrocuted himself in the lab one year, but it didn’t shock him back to sanity.)
The tin foil hat brigade has (imho rightly) pointed out that the RNA covid “vaccine” (that revised the definition of vaccine) has many side effects. They urge the unvaxed to store their own blood and the rest of us should insist on unvaxed blood for transfusions. (IMHO if I need a transfusion, I think the RNA fragments are the least of my worries!)
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First, there are currently 47 known blood groups and 366 different antigens, as of October 2024. That means that a person receiving an O negative donation could still have an immune reaction to any of the other antigens present – although some antigens provoke more of an immune response than others.
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Learning that there are so many blood groups and antigens has alerted me to inquire what my loved one’s blood characteristics are. The article warns that you may not find out that you are one of the “unlucky winners” of an “immune response”. It would seem that everyone should get this information!
This story has a very happy ending. It appears that several groups of companies and scientists are hot on the quest for a universal donor “golden” Rh null blood type artificial blood. That would obviate the need for blood which always seems to be in short or near short supply.
Until that day comes, I urge everyone to donate. I’m too old now and they don’t want “old” blood, but I would if I could. Argh!
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Sunday, November 23, 2025
[JR: HST signed it into existence and regretted it. JFK and RFK were killed by it. And, 911 may have involved it. Just time to END it.]
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Sunday, November 23, 2025
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/11/watch-border-czar-tom-homan-delivers-perfect-response-2/
WATCH: Border Czar Tom Homan Delivers a Perfect Response After Catholic Bishops Blast Trump Admin for Carrying Out Mass Deportations of Illegal Aliens
by Cullen Linebarger Nov. 15, 2025 7:30 am
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As The New York Times reported, the United States’ Conference of Bishops sharply rebuked the Trump Administration over its mass deportation policy of illegals during the bishops’ annual conference in Baltimore.
In a statement, the bishops slammed the Trump Administration for creating “a climate of fear,” vilifying illegals, and not granting lawbreakers access to pastoral care.
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Funny, I don’t remember them criticizing the Biden Administration for “cages”, or human trafficking. Or, when Obama deported people.
Perhaps, because there was a financial incentive to the Catholic Church to “resettle” immigrants, their opinion was swayed?
Tom Homan reacts to Catholic Bishops on immigration: “I’m saying it not only as the Border Czar, I’ll say it as a Catholic, I think they need to spend time fixing the Catholic Church.”
Yup, spot on!
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Saturday, November 22, 2025
https://www.makeuseof.com/chatgpt-meltdown-hallucination-prompt/?user=bXVvQHJlaW5rZS5jYw&lctg=28d2ed2b3c7a64795f347195bfd302ab46e112a2d0fa032e2ba5de55cc388ab7
Why does this harmless emoji make ChatGPT lose its mind?
By Amir Bohlooli
Published 5 hours ago
<< EDITOR ADDED DATE 2025-11-15>>
- Amir is the Segment Lead for Productivity and Creative at MUO. He’s a PharmD student who’s interested in clinical outcomes and Pharmacoeconomics. He loves looking at
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Despite all that, the emoji never existed. This is the Mandela effect. A shared false memory. The term came from researcher Fiona Broome, who clearly remembered Nelson Mandela dying in prison in the 1980s — only to realize Mandela became president and died in 2013. She could even recall the funeral coverage. When she found many others with the same false memory, the term “Mandela effect” was born.
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I wonder how much of “history” is nothing more than a “shared false memory”. And, if written “history” is a false memory, then what is oral “history” passed down through generations?
So it sounds like that JoHari window quadrant IV (i.e., what we both can’t see) is suddenly HUGE!
Now with “AI”, whatever that is, with its “hallucinations” and fake video creations, make even more “evidence” unreliable. The legal system has proven that “eyewitness” testimony is very fallible. And, even forensic “evidence” has to be suspect.
What can we “know” or “believe”?
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-15302383/Mr-Darcy-wet-colour-C3PO-Mandela-Effect-films.html
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Why does the Mandela Effect happen?
Arlin Cuncic, a psychologist and author based in Canada, said the Mandela Effect is ‘unreliable and not infallible’.
She points to a memory error called confabulation – where the brain fills in gaps that are missing in your memories to make more sense of them.
Another factor is the information we subsequently learn can change our memory of the original event.
‘This includes event subtle information and helps to explain why eyewitness testimony can be unreliable,’ she said in a piece for Verywell Mind.
Also, the role of the internet in ‘influencing the memories of the masses should not be underestimated’.
‘It’s probably no coincidence that consideration of the Mandela effect has grown in this digital age,’ Cuncic said.
Another theory for the basis for the Mandela effect relates to the idea that rather than one timeline of events, alternate realities or universes may be taking place and mixing with our timeline.
This far-fetched idea continues to gain traction among online Mandela effect communities but is closer to the realm of science fiction.
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Friday, November 21, 2025
https://abcnews.go.com/US/video/wwii-veterans-bracelet-1946-found-france-returned-daughter-127423766?utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4b9c55d78644b3a882a4d
WWII veteran’s bracelet from 1946 found in France and returned to his daughter
It was an incredible research mystery. Now, Joan Sheehan will receive her dad’s WWII bracelet 80 years later.
November 11, 2025
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Better than never.
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Thursday, November 20, 2025
https://thehill.com/homenews/nexstar_media_wire/5602348-why-the-us-is-minting-its-last-penny-and-what-happens-now/
Why the US is minting its last penny, and what happens now
by Addy Bink – 11/12/25 3:10 PM ET
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(NEXSTAR) — The day has finally come: the U.S. Mint is pressing its last pennies on Wednesday. It comes as retailers across the country are already facing empty penny slots in their cash registers.
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https://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2025/11/12/what-fdr-did-to-our-money/
What FDR Did to Our Money
By: Jacob Hornberger|Published on: Nov 12, 2025
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For more than 125 years, the United States had a gold-coin, silver-coin monetary system. No, it was not a paper-money system backed by gold, as so many mainstream commentators have been taught to believe. It was a system in which gold coins and silver coins were the official money of the American people.
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Penny candy, Nickel cigars, Dime store comics, and Quarter a gallon gas!
Hopefully, this action by the mint will drive home to “We, The Sheeple” that they have been robbed of their birthright.
Prior to FDR, one could stack gold coins and save for your old age secure in the knowledge that your wealth could nit be silently stolen by the Gooferment via “inflation”.
The Dead Old White Guys knew what we have apparently forgotten as a society. Having lived thru an era of “not worth a Continental damn”, they knew that papa money was the Devil’s spawn.
I’ve posted many blog posts about “pony candy” and well-remember life was better when money was “honest”.
Perhaps, ₿itcoin will replace the “Federal Reserve Note”?
Save your nickels because they are the next to disappear.
Argh!
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Wednesday, November 19, 2025
FROM 1440 http://join1440.com/
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House Shutdown Vote
The House reconvenes today and is expected to vote on a Senate bill to reopen the government. The vote comes on the 43rd day of the US’ longest shutdown.
Seven Democrats and one independent joined 52 Republicans to pass the Senate bill, which would fund much of the government through January. The Agriculture Department—which facilitates SNAP food benefits to 42 million Americans—would be funded through September 2026. The bill does not extend COVID-era healthcare subsidies for 24 million people who purchase plans under the Affordable Care Act. Democratic leaders had sought to make reopening the government conditional on extending those subsidies, due to expire Dec. 31. ACA marketplace premiums are projected to rise up to 30%, from 18%, without an extension. Federal health subsidies cost an estimated $1.8T in 2023, roughly 7% of the US gross domestic product.
Separately, airlines canceled an estimated 6% of flights at 40 of the US’ busiest airports yesterday amid ongoing air traffic controller shortages.
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Why is the Gooferment regulating and operating “Aviation”?
It should ONLY be regulating as necessary. Clearly a consortium of commercial airlines could do a better job and cheaper. Surely a private entity would not be running on 1950’s hardware and software. Additionally, the Gooferment is immoral, ineffective, and inefficient. As well as untrustworthy. So, there would be efficiencies and cost reductions.
This goes for Air Traffic Control and Airports.
Now there would have to be some role for “private aviation” and “military aviation” in this consortium. But those details can be worked out between the parties involved.
Airports would be just like any other corporate establishment regulated by the state or local Gooferment.
I can see a much better future once we #privatizetheFAA!
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Tuesday, November 18, 2025
https://www.maloufchevrolet.com/new-chevrolet-lease-finance-offers-edison-nj.htm
Find it hard to believe that a few year old 20K mile Colorado pickup truck would need rear brakes. Sounds like a manufacture’s defect or a bad design?
Certainly no reflection upon the dealership.
At least the coffee was “free”.
Argh! Argh! Sigh!
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Monday, November 17, 2025
Gabapentin Nation: Almost All Aches And Irritations Now Get This Off-Label Pill
2025 Nov 11 at 10:31
by Bill Heid
in Pain-Free Living Off The Grid
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The Quiet Rise of a Pharmaceutical Star
It didn’t start out this way. Back in the ’90s, gabapentin was just another seizure med. Then came the sales push. The company behind it sent reps and doctors to fancy dinners and “educational retreats,” where talk quietly turned to off-label uses—headaches, mood swings, ADHD, you name it. Eventually, that little scheme cost them almost half a billion in fines. You’d think that would’ve ended the story.
But then the opioid crisis hit. When OxyContin started wrecking lives and headlines screamed addiction and death, doctors needed something—anything—that wouldn’t destroy their patients or careers.
Gabapentin looked like a safe harbor: cheap, not technically addictive, and tolerated well enough. So, when the pain didn’t fit a neat category, gabapentin became the fallback.
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Seems like an over prescribed med. Wonder when we’ll see the ads “if you were hurt by Gabapentin, call 1-800-gab-pent to join our class action suit”. Of course, like all “class actions”, only the lawyers get rich.
And, like thalidomide, when do the bad effects become visible?
Married to a chronic pain after amputation sufferer, she report that it’s “not very effective and only dulls the pain for an hour”. If so, why bother?
Wonder when we will see the studies about ill-effects and Big Pharma abuses?
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Sunday, November 16, 2025
https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/four-next-steps-from-mccullough-foundation?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1119676&post_id=178068896&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=3snn7d&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
Four “Next Steps” from McCullough Foundation Report on Autism
Dr McCullough outlines constructive actions to be taken by our government for Dr. Gina Loudon
Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH
Nov 08, 2025
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Rescind The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (NCVIA) of 1986 (42 U.S.C. §§ 300aa-1 to 300aa-34) and restore product liability to the vaccine manufacturers
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And watch Big Pharma scram like a stuck pig. All that lobbying money for naught.
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Saturday, November 15, 2025
https://survivalblog.com/2025/11/05/survivalblog-readers-editors-snippets-237/
SurvivalBlog Readers’ & Editors’ Snippets
James Wesley Rawles
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PRINCIPLES OF SELF-SUFFICIENCY
From the long-running and oft-quoted The Mcalvany Intelligence Advisor
- Change the way you look at everything. Rethink your entire lifestyle.
- Develop discernment about people.
- When you invest, invest first in the right people.
- Look at yourself honestly, and ascertain your strengths and your weaknesses.
- Seek the counsel of others you trust.
- Find like-minded people who can be part of a mutual support group with whom you can cooperate.
- Find alternate methods for doing everything.
- Develop an instinct for what doesn’t feel right. No matter how good something looks or sounds on the surface, go with your gut feeling, with your instinct, with your intuition.
- Eliminate non-essentials from your life. Eliminate all time wasters and money wasters, and things you don’t need – i.e. clothes, furniture, junk, etc. Eliminate television from your life.
- Simplify your lifestyle – learn to say ‘no’ to things or activities which do not make you self-sufficient. Learn to please God and yourself, and not other people.
- Develop physical, mental and spiritual disciplines.
- Learn to treat everything as if it were irreplaceable.
- Buy things that will last, even if they cost more.
- Acquire tools that do not depend upon electric power.
- Learn to spend time alone with yourself in total silence – think, reflect, reminisce, and plan [or strategize] in silence.
- Learn to spend time alone with yourself and your family, apart from superficial entertainment and distractions.
- Learn something from every situation you are in – everything you hear, see, touch, or feel has a lesson in it. Learn a principle from every mistake you make, from everyday life situations.
- Make sure your trust is in the Lord and not your own preparedness. Pattern your preparedness according to the guidance of the Lord. Listen to what the Lord puts in your heart – don’t use only your reasoning power.
- Learn to enjoy simple pleasures from the smallest things – have a measure of joy and happiness that doesn’t come from creature comforts or entertainment.
- Store up memories for times of isolation or separation from your loved ones.
- Establish priorities for all of life [i.e. relationship, needs, present needs, future needs.] Set goals for areas you’ll be proficient or self-sufficient in. Set a schedule or timeline based on money and time you can invest in self-sufficiency.
- Examine the concept of civil disobedience [from the Bible and history.] At what point should the people of Egypt have said ‘no’ to killing the male babies in Moses’ day? At what point should the people of colonial America have said ‘no’ to King George? At what point should the people of Germany have said ‘no’ to Hitler? At what point do we say ‘no’ to despots in our day – when they take over money, our property, our guns, our children, our freedom? Decide what is your action point – when do you move to civil disobedience? [For many throughout history – it was when evil leaders handed down edicts that were directly contrary to God’s Word or commands.] Don’t set your action point too early or too quickly – nor too late or never. Think through and calculate a strategy – then act on it.
- Learn to ask the right questions in every situation. [In ‘Operation Waco,’ nobody asked the right questions.]
- Bring orderliness into your life. If you live in disorder, it will pull you down; it will break your focus. Think focus versus distraction. Eliminate the distractions from your life.
- Self-sufficiency [or survival] principles are learned on a day-to-day basis and must be practical.
- Always have more than one way to escape, more than one way to do something. Have a plan B and a plan C.
- Everyday life [and especially crisis] requires ‘up-front systems’ and ‘back-up systems’ if the first line of defense or ‘up-front systems fails.
- Real education [or learning] takes place only when change occurs in our attitudes, actions, and way of life.
- Wisdom is making practical applications of what you know. It is not enough to know everything you need to know. It will only serve you and others if practical application is made of that knowledge.
- Fix in your own mind the truth about your capabilities. In a crisis situation, this principle will keep you from cockiness [or overconfidence] and will provide you with confidence.
- Decide ahead of time before a crisis arrives, how you will react in a given situation so that you are not swayed by the circumstances, the situation, or your emotions.
- Beware of being spread too thin in your life. Decide on the few things in life that you must do and do them well. Think focus versus distraction. Make sure that unimportant, non-essential distractions don’t keep you from achieving your important objectives.
- Learn to quit wasting things. Be a good steward of all that God provides.
- Buy an extra one of everything you use regularly and set the extra one aside for the time when such items may be difficult or impossible to obtain.
- In every situation, train yourself to look for what doesn’t fit, for what’s out of place, for what doesn’t look right.
- Teach your children [and yourself] that they are not obligated to give information to a stranger. You don’t have to answer questions [not even to a government official] that are none of their business.
- Sell or give away things you do not use or need. Consider giving away or selling 50% of your ‘stuff,’ [i.e. the non-essentials.] Simplify and streamline your life, lifestyle and possessions.
- Find someone who lived through the Great Depression and learn from them how they were self-sufficient, how they made do with little, and how they found joy and contentment in the midst of hard times. An excellent book on this subject is We Had Everything But Money: Priceless Memories of the Great Depression From Strong People Who Tell In Their Own Words What It Was Like When Banks Closed and Hearts Opened.
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I particularly like “Real education [or learning] takes place only when change occurs in our attitudes, actions, and way of life.”
My life would have been a lot different if I’d have made changes in my “attitude”.
Too late, we learn.
Sigh!
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Friday, November 14, 2025
https://survivalblog.com/2025/11/05/survivalblog-readers-editors-snippets-237/
SurvivalBlog Readers’ & Editors’ Snippets
James Wesley Rawles November 5, 2025
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Reader H.L. wrote:
“So now we learn that one in eight Americans are receiving SNAP benefits. Another nail in our coffin. Those who are working support many others who are not and most could work at something. We are also an aging nation, as many families choose to not have children, or just one or two. So they are supporting with their taxes more and more people who could but do not work. We are in deep trouble and both the Republicans and the Democrats, and way too many Americans have little to no understanding that only capitalism can fix things. We have actually never had pure Capitalism and we are now a welfare nation. Sooner or later, those who work and save will wake up, but will not be able to do anything about it. The only way seems to be we have another revolution like we did back in the late 1700s to divorce ourselves from England.
No nation can last long with an albatross like that around its neck. Saying goodbye to the America that once had such promise.”
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I was also ASTONISHED when the 1 in 8 stat came out.
For whatever reason, this is unsustainable.
In bygone days, I knew men who were denied benefits because they were “able bodied”. Now it seems like everyone is “disabled” for reasons OTHER than a missing arm or leg, blind, or some physically flaw.
Not sure how this “epidemic” gets rolled back, but maybe it’s a simple as just just saying: “Sorry we’re broke. (All too true!) And you will have to find help elsewhere.”
Maybe it’s cruel but so it REAL LIFE. In Nature, a disabled animal is just lunch for another.
Maybe this is the “Darwin Award”?
Or the Gooferment policy that will lead to the revitalization of the various charitable organizations like the Elks, Moose, VFW, AL, and the ethnic clubs like Irish, Germans, Italians had when I was young.
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Thursday, November 13, 2025
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/11/trump-on-why-he-pardoned-binance-ceo-are-you-ready-i-dont-know-who-he-is/
Trump on why he pardoned Binance CEO: “Are you ready? I don’t know who he is.”
Trump family business could benefit from pardon of crypto ex-con Changpeng Zhao.
Jon Brodkin – Nov 3, 2025 2:15 PM
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President Trump says he still doesn’t know who Binance founder and former CEO Changpeng Zhao is, despite having pardoned Zhao last month.
CBS correspondent Norah O’Donnell asked Trump about the pardon in a 60 Minutes interview that aired yesterday, noting that Zhao pleaded guilty to violating anti-money laundering laws. “The government at the time said that C.Z. had caused ‘significant harm to US national security,’ essentially by allowing terrorist groups like Hamas to move millions of dollars around. Why did you pardon him?” O’Donnell asked.
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After the Biden fiasco of autopen pardons, @realDonaldTrump should create a “Devil’s Advocate” to speak against pardoning people. Maybe we could get Judge Judy to chair a TV trial with a retired judge to act as the Devil’s Advocate versus the lawyer who thinks his client deserves one.
Put it on Pay Per View for a few buck to defer the expense. It’d make Survivor or the Bachelor look tame by comparison. Judge “Don’t Pee on My Leg and Tell Me It’s Raining” Judy Sheindlin could hear both sides and then issue a recommendation to the President. Of course, that recommendation meeting could be on PPV too where the President could sign it for all to see.
I love this idea. (Who doesn’t love their own “baby”? No matter how ugly.). Your comments welcome.
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Wednesday, November 12, 2025
https://nypost.com/2025/11/12/us-news/operation-dirtbag-sees-over-150-illegal-migrant-sexual-predators-nabbed-in-florida/?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=news_alert&utm_content=20251112?&utm_source=sailthru&lctg=6080ba40747925275a09dcd3&utm_term=NYP%20-%20News%20Alerts
‘Operation Dirtbag’ sees over 150 illegal migrant sexual predators nabbed in Florida, Kristi Noem announces
By Emily Crane
Published Nov. 12, 2025, 8:26 a.m. ET
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“The fact that they were sexual deviants and perverts, and now we’ve gotten them off of our streets, it’s remarkable. And we need to do more of it.”
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Seems like they have finally hit on what “We, The Sheeple” wants. It’s what I want.
We still have to solve some “illegal immigration” problems cause by the stupidity, malfeasance, and gross incompetence of previous administrations, politicians, and bureaucrats. Especially judges, who see the violent and dangerous felons routinely reappearing in front of them.
(1) Any “illegal immigrant”, who has been here for more that a decade living a good life without welfare or any criminal record, should get a parole and a pathway to citizenship.
(2) Any “illegal immigrant”, who was brought here as a child, and has no criminal record, should get parole and a pathway to citizenship.
(3) Any politicians or bureaucrats, who hinder the efforts of DHS, should be arrested, indicted, and get a fair trial. If guilty, as a condition of sentence, should be barred from political office or Gooferment employment.
(4) Any formal statement — oral or written — in any form (e.g., twitter) — by politicians or bureaucrats — should be considered under oath and subject to perjury prosecution.
That should clean up this mess quickly.
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Wednesday, November 12, 2025
https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/why-does-natural-medicine-caution
Why Does Natural Medicine Caution Against Suppressing Fevers?
Exploring the link between Tylenol and Autism
A Midwestern Doctor
The Forgotten Side of Medicine
Nov 02, 2025
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Story at a Glance:
- Over-the-counter (OTC) pain and fever medications are widely used despite having marginal efficacy and significant side effects that hospitalize hundreds of thousands of Americans each year.
- While a widespread practice, using these medications to reduce fevers has long been controversial, both due to their toxicity and the notion that fevers are essential for health.
- During the 1918 Influenza pandemic, one of the most critical lessons was that avoiding fever suppression was vital for protecting patients from dying.
- While considered the “safest” option, Tylenol has a wide range of issues, including liver damage, gastrointestinal issues, blood cancers, and kidney injuries.
- An extensive body of data connects using Tylenol during pregnancy or in infancy to the development of neurological injuries (e.g., autism).
- Many of these tragic cases illustrate a longstanding observation within natural medicine—suppressing superficial reactions (e.g., fevers) can transform illnesses into chronic ailments that can cause far more issues.
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Many consider NSAIDs (ibuprofen and naproxen) amongst the most hazardous drugs in the U.S. because:
- They are the leading cause of drug-related hospital admissions
- Kidney damage is a significant risk.
- NSAIDs raise cardiovascular risks.
- Gastrointestinal bleeding
- They impair healing, especially of ligaments
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My string of kidney docs — thanks to all the changing of insurance networks during Obamacare — have ALL warned me not to take ANY “pain treatments” without consultation.
Those pregnant women with TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome) are really brainwashed. Even if DJT47 is wrong, why would you risk your baby and your own health to prove a political point.
And, we should learn from the history of medicine with the axion “first do no harm” that sometimes doing nothing is the best strategy and tactic. Many from Eastern and Western medical traditions have urged that body can hal itself in some cases.
Humans should be humble and realize that we can’t know it all and have to be careful when “popping pills”.
Some conditions don’t ned Big Pharma’s quick fixes.
Sigh!
“Do Your Own Research. Make Up Your Own Mind. Think For Yourself.” — Sharyl Attkisson
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Tuesday, November 11, 2025
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
Laurence Binyon
poem “For the Fallen” (1914)
[JR: Remember the generations of young men — English, French, German, and American — wiped out by aristocratic generals who didn’t care that the machine gun, artillery, tanks, and flame throwers had revolutionized “warfare”. Argh! So sad and so wasteful. Dona Nobis Pacem]
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